For the first time this method was used by the personal doctors of Egyptian pharaoh's.
 Hirudotherapy - («hirudo» - medical leech) treatment with leeches. This ctarinny treatment method used today in modern medicine, as an innovative, along with the latest medical technologies. Current scientific data obtained through genetic engineering, molecular biology, biochemical research, explained many previously seemed mysterious properties of medical leeches.
Hirudotherapy promotes, virtually no such disease, which can not be treated with leeches. On the globe is known about 400 species of leeches, and only one species Hirudo medicinalis and its three subspecies are useful to humans and used in medicine. It should be noted that the leech is a "one-off tool" that eliminates infection of the patient. Leeches are grown in special biofactory, where the strictest quarantine. Hirudotherapy is unique among modern methods of treatment.
The therapeutic effect of hirudotherapy consists of several factors:
Reflex - leeches are usually placed in such a way that they bite through the skin of the patient only in the reflex points (ie, acupuncture points). During the session hirudotherapy hungry leeches put on the area of the body which must be cured: in the region of the heart, liver, along the affected vessels, etc. Formulation of leeches is under the supervision of a physician, as only he can correctly identify the point of impact and the number of leeches.
Mechanical - leeches carry out a purely mechanical effect on blood flow. This refers to the exhaustion of blood and its long-term outflow from the wound after a bite.
Biology - prisasyvayas to the integuments, and then the skin on prokusyvaya 1,5-2 mm, leech first thing is starting to impose its saliva into the wound, containing over a hundred different biologically active substances (natural drugs), mild action which leads to the normalization of human body. These substances include: hyaluronidase, hirudin, bdelliny, egliny, destabilazny complex (natural liposome), etc.
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