Medicinal bloedzuigers - Hirudo medicinalis

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

In the modern medicin the medicinal bloedzuigers and the bloedzuiger therapy experiencies nowadays again renaissance in its use for different diseases.

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