Medicinal blodigels - Hirudo medicinalis

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

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

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