Medicinal pijavice - Hirudo medicinalis

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

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

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