Medical pijavice - Hirudo medicinalis

The medical pijavice and the pijavice therapy is a thousands of years old well known medical treatment. The medical pijavice 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 pijavice for the pijavice therapy in the 2ten century before Christi from the Greek Nikander von Kolophon, who used the pijavice and the pijavice therapy particularly for the treatment of poisoned snake bites.

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

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