Thursday, 28 November 2013 12:54

Medical leeches still commonly used

Medical leeches still commonly used

Using leeches as an effective and natural mean of bloodletting started in ancient times and continued to be used in as late as in 19th century. Although in many cases leeches were used to reduce the levels of black bile, phlegm and other substances thus making people healthy in the 19th century doctors in Europe used them in large quantities (even over 40 million leeches were then imported from tropical areas into France, England, etc. However, by the end of the 20th century this practice has been entirely abandoned and the new, common and modern ways of healing people emerged.

However, as Dr. Finstein (a Professor of medicine) has noted some of the people really do benefit from using this natural and ancient way of healing. This is because some of the people intake too much iron from the environment (the intake may result from genetic conditions) and the iron is mainly stored within red blood cells. Therefore, the natural way to get rid of too much level of iron is to release the right quantity of blood from the body.

An ideal and cost-saving option is to use medical leeches. They are very effective in removing the blood and, at the same time, helping to cure several diseases such as polycythemia where the blood in the marrow gets thicker as the time passes. Leeches are also welcome and widely used by traditional medicine in cases such as reparative surgery where it may happen that a given vein will not release the blood and it will sooner or later pool the tissue. Using leeches will effectively remove the blood and help the vein to find a new path in our body.

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