Leech Information Blog — leeches

They were once used to treat everything from headaches to strangulation, and leeches are still a vital part of surgery. How are they farmed? Six seconds. Perhaps 10. Twelve, if it is cautious or dopey. After that, the jaws will activate, the hundreds of teeth will engage, the leech will begin to eat, and its meal is your blood. Are you wading through a tropical pond in fierce humidity? Have you returned to your guesthouse to find with horror a passenger on your leg? Possibly. But you are equally likely to be in a sterile room of a modern hospital,...

     Holding your leeches only in a small fish tank or aquarium and using the special leech forceps carefully, so as not to hurt or injure them them,       To test the leeches' capacity and capabilities of performing leech therapy, check the following vital signs:       1. Pesence of a pronounced reflex contraction, i.e, when you touch the body, the leech becomes short, thick, firm and dense;      2) The should have a strong desire to crawl out of the vessel;      3) They should exert high level of activity: if the you lower your hand into the vessel, leechs immediately...