Medicinal sangsues - Hirudo medicinalis

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

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

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