Hirudotherapy (Girudotherapy)

The leech treatment refers to a method of alternative Medicine. At the Hirudotherapy leeches are placed on the affected area. These bite firmly and suck blood from the body. So a bloodletting of approximately ten milliliters of blood is performed. It transferred into the wound, causing anticoagulant drugs ( heparin and hirudin ) which usually further bleeding of about 50 ml of the leech. Thus, the blood flows more easily and diseases such as blood stasis can be cured. Often the leech therapy is also used in plastic surgery, since the active substances contained in the saliva, for example, To avoid complications in replantation. Application in medical wellness.