Medicinal piócas - Hirudo medicinalis

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

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

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