Medical leech - Hirudo medicinalis

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

In the modern medicin the medical leech and the leech therapy experiencies nowadays again renaissance in its use for differetn diseases.

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