Medicinal sanguessugas - Hirudo medicinalis

Medicinal sanguessugas and the sanguessuga therapy is a thousands of years old well known medical treatment. Medicinal sanguessugas are assigned with problem definitions such as cramp veins, vein deseases, arthrosis or tinnitus. One already finds the first recordings over the use of the medicinal sanguessugas for the sanguessuga therapy in the 2ten century before Christi from the Greek Nikander von Kolophon, who used the sanguessugas and the sanguessuga therapy particularly for the treatment of poisoned snake bites.

In the modern medicin the medicinal sanguessugas and the sanguessuga therapy experiencies nowadays again renaissance in its use for different diseases.

Apart from the classical areas for the medicinal sanguessugas for the sanguessuga therapy such as cramp veins, vein deseases, arthrosis, tinitus today the sanguessuga therapy is used also in the modern reconstructiv and plastic surgery. Here the medicinal sanguessugas helps to improve a venous conguestion in case of e.g.reimplanting a lost finger through an accidant.