The sanguessuga therapy

The sanguessuga therapy should be accomplished only by experienced therapists!

The preparation of the patient

The patient should not use showering gel, lotions, etc. on those skin portions, on which the sanguessuga are to be touched down. A cleaning of the skin before the treatment is possible with water, curd soap or alcohol. The alcohol as well as curd soap must be washed off before the beginning of the treatment. For the treatment the skin of the patient must be warm. Therefore use warm water.

The preparation of the sanguessuga

In order to reduce the number of germs on the suction cups and the skin of the sanguessuga, the sanguessuga must be put 2 hours before the beginning of the treatment into cold (max. 20 degrees), boiled water.

How many sanguessugas do I need for a therapy

The necessary number of sanguessugas depends by the following factors: Age and weight of the patient, the kind of disease and the size of the sanguessugas available.
When chronic illnesses one sets fewer animals for it the therapy however in shorter time intervals is on repeated. With acute diseases one uses more sanguessuga and has a longer period up to the next treatment. For a normal adult with standard weight and no further medical treatment and in a healthy condition 10 sanguessugas may be used for a therapy.

Position the sanguessuga

The sanguessuga can be put on either with the hand or a liqueur glass. In order to get the animals to the concrete point, where they are to be set, the use of a wood putty is recommended.

In principle sanguessugas can be set at the whole body. To exclude one should only badly supplied with blood places, open wounds and particularly sensitive skin parts, like palms, nipples etc.. Likewise to advise against is large superficial veins, since it would come here to a strengthened after blood ledding.

Animation of the sanguessuga

With situations e.g. with thunderstorm, with high nervousness or with smokers or also with patient the certain medicines like e.g.. Beta blockers take, can it occur that the sanguessuga do not bite. In these cases a piece of butter, which is rubbed on the place where the sanguessuga shoul bite may help. Stinging or cutting the skin portion concerned can likewise lead to success.

The sanguessuga therapy

The sanguessuga sucks approx. 30 minutes. One should let the animals in peace suck and under no circumstances when sucking disturb. Likewise should not be under any circumstances smoked in the environment. Sucking should not be artificially interrupted. At the end of sucking the sanguessuga drops off alone. Sometimes it happens that the sanguessugas after sucking are so tired and slow acting, that they remain hanging on the patient. Into such a case it helps to drive with a putty under the front suction cup and take so the sanguessuga off. Please make sure that the sanguessuga will not be crimped, in order to avoid an infection. For this reason also no salt may be used for removing the sanguessugas.

Subsequent treatment

The blood letting after the sucktion should not be prevented, it increases the effectiveness of the therapy and has a cleaning effect. In addition thereby the wound is cleaned from the germs. The blood letting usually lasts up to 12 hours. During the day the treatment the patient should avoid physical efforts. The wounds should be controlled in the next days up to healing.