Sangsue medicinale - Hirudo medicinalis

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

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

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