Leech therapy with eye diseases

In the literature numerous referring to the successful employment of the leech therapy are with the most different eye diseases.

Haematome

Leeches are an excellent means to resorb Haematome within the eye range. This characteristic also the boxer in the United States have themselves too use made around the so-called "blue eye" or also violet mentioned to heal. By the employment trauma tables swelling already mostly disappear to the leech therapy after few days.

Glaukom

The acute accumulation with a Glaukom responds well to a leech therapy. The headache and the eye pain mostly omit after setting the leech relatively rapidly and the internal pressure of the eyes come again on a normal level. A eye-medicinal treatment cannot be replaced however by it.

Inflammations of the eyes

The following inflammations of the eyes are called in the literature, with which the leech therapy with success was used:
Chorioiditis, Chorioretinitis, Iridochorioiditis, Iridozyklitis, Keratoiritis, Retrobulbaerneuritis and Skleritis.