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Medicinal leech therapy (Hirudotherapy) : A brief overview

Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 2010
Hirudotherapy is a treatment using medicinal leeches. Hirudo medicinali, have been used to treat patients for centuries. In the past, leeches have proved to be an effective treatment for a number of conditions including battle wound treatment. Currently leeches may be used to assist in the treatment of abscesses, arthritis, glaucoma, myasthenia gravis,
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Hirudotherapy in the treatment and rehabilitation of joint diseases

The presented scientific-practical and clinical-pharmacological recommendations highlight modern approaches to the use of hirudotherapy in the treatment and rehabilitation of patients with inflammatory and degenerative-dystrophic diseases of the joints.
Nataliia Pokhmurska-Hudym, Nataliia Matsko   +1 more
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Hirudotherapy

2013
Kosta Y Mumcuoglu, Mumcuoglu Kosta Y
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Hirudotherapy in Wound Healing

The International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds, 2020
Leeches are hermaphrodite, bloodsucking parasitic worms usually found in places with fresh water. Leech therapy existed 3000 years, and it is being used at a different scope. Several species of leeches have been used in medicine, and the most common species used is Hirudo medicinalis.
Harikrishna K. R. Nair, Nazni Wasi Ahmad, Han Lim Lee, Norazah Ahmad, Suhana Othamn, Noor Shazleen Husnie Mohd Mokhtar, Sylvia Syin Ying Chong   +6 more
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Hirudotherapy in veterinary medicine.

Annals of parasitology, 2014
The saliva of medicinal leeches, e.g., Hirudo medicinalis and Hirudo verbana commonly used in hirudotherapy, contains more than 100 bioactive substances with various therapeutic effects, including anticoagulant, vasodilator, thrombolytic, anti-inflammatory and anaesthetic properties.
Natalia Sobczak, Magdalena Kantyka
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Hirudotherapy: Will The Glorious Past Return?

2017
Hirudotherapy or leech therapy is a practice that dates back to the ancient ages, where it was employed as an alternative to phlebotomy. However, it has now made a space for itself in today’s modern world therapy after the discovery of several medicinal substances in its saliva which have anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antiseptic, anti-metastatic ...
VINEET, NAIR, KRISHNA, PADA DAS, NAIRITA, SAHA   +2 more
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The use of hirudotherapy and hijama in gynecological patients

Manual Therapy
The article presents clinical observations of the successful use of hirudotherapy and hijama (vacuum capillary bloodletting) as complementary methods in the treatment of patients with endometrial and cervical polyps. Any pathological process, including a benign neoplasm, occurs at the site of microcirculation disorders, capillaropathology, as a result ...
Dina Amirova, Al'fiya Usmanova
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Medical Leech Therapy (Hirudotherapy)

2019
Sülüklerhalkalı omurgasızlar sınıfındadır, kan ile beslenirler ve antik dönemden beriçeşitli hastalıkları tedavi etmek için flebotomide kullanılırlar. Hirudoterapi,tedavi için tıbbi sülüklerin uygulanmasıdır. Sülük tedavisinin terapötikkullanımı köklü bir yöntemdir ve eski Mısır'a, medeniyetin başlangıcınadayanır. 20.
KÜÇÜK, M.öner, YAMAN, Ozan
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Hirudotherapy in Wound Healing

International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds, 2022
Sylvia Sy Chong, Lee Hanlim
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Hirudotherapy for neonatal limb ischemia during ECMO support: A word of caution

Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 2021
Joseph Resch, Sameh M Said
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