Medicinal pióca - Hirudo medicinalis

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

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

Apart from the classical areas for the medicinal pióca 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 pióca helps to improve a venous conguestion in case of e.g.reimplanting a lost finger through an accidant.