Medicinal pijavka - Hirudo medicinalis

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

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

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