Medicinal blodigles - Hirudo medicinalis

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

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

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