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worldwide for medical purpose. A single leech can suck upto 10-
30 ml. Impure blood
Indication for leech therapy
there is still large scope in this field for reasearch Properties of
hirudine are wellknown for.
Antinflamatory, antibiotic effect Normalisation & improvement
of capillay circullation
Anti stress effect.
Anticoagulant & anasthetic effect
I munomodulatory & imunostimulant effect as blood purifire.
Anti bacterial effect.
Improvement in extra capillary blocks.
Leeches firstly used in 1960 to treat intra venous insufficiency.
After then they are popular in plastic reconstructive surjery & in
skin graft Leech provide good asistant to relive block .
In General, Leech therapy is indicated for the problems such as
treat diseases, inflametory reaction, Arthritis & rhuematic
disorder, Tenderness varicose veins, throumbus , arthrosis,
muscular tention, for blood purification & generation, thrombosis
& embolism, congestion, hypertention pain relif etc. Use of Leech
in cancer & Hiv are part of reseacrt but not contra indicated.
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