Scientometric analysis of medicinal leech therapy [PDF]
Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine, 2020 Background: Hirudotherapy, also known as medicinal leech therapy, has been used to treat a wide range of disorders for thousands of years since Ancient Egypt.
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Medicinal leech therapyâan overall perspective [PDF]
Integrative Medicine Research, 2017 Complementary medicine methods have a long history, but modern medicine has just recently focused on their possible modes of action. Medicinal leech therapy (MLT) or hirudotherapy, an old technique, has been studied by many researchers for possible ...
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Systematic review of medicinal leech therapy in urology [PDF]
African Journal of Urology, 2023 Background Medicinal leech therapy, otherwise known as hirudotherapy or leeching, has been utilized for numerous pathologies over centuries. The technique resurfaced in modern medicine for its beneficial effects in microsurgical complications ...
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Poly-paraphyly of Hirudinidae: many lineages of medicinal leeches [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2009 Background Medicinal leeches became infamous for their utility in bloodletting popularized in the 19th century, and have seen a recent resurgence in post-operative treatments for flap and replantation surgeries, and in terms of characterization of ...
Phillips Anna J, Siddall Mark E
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ERGA-BGE reference genome of Hirudo verbana, a once neglected freshwater haematophagous European medicinal leech [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]
Open Research EuropeHirudo verbana Carena, 1820, commonly known as the southern medicinal leech, is one of several European medicinal leeches, whose full diversity has just recently started to be uncovered.
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Transcriptomic analysis of the salivary gland of medicinal leech Hirudo nipponia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Hirudo nipponia (known as Shui Zhi in Chinese) is a well-known Chinese medicine with numerous active ingredients in its body, especially in its saliva.
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Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine, 2020 The use of medicinal leech therapy (MLT) is the subject of many articles describing basic pharmacological principles, application procedures, or efficacy and safety of the broad range of therapeutic indications.This review is focused on the information ...
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Medicinal Leech Therapy in Acute Herpes Zoster Condition- A Case Report
Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied SciencesHerpes zoster is an acute viral skin disease characterized by the painful skin rashes, burning sensation, blisters, and post-herpetic neuralgia caused by varicella zoster virus (VZV). In immune-compromised people, many dermatomes are implicated.
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In vivo selection of a multidrug-resistant Aeromonas salmonicida during medicinal leech therapy [PDF]
New Microbes and New Infections, 2018 We report the selection in a 15-year-old boy of a multidrug-resistant, extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Aeromonas salmonicida after medicinal leech therapy that required an antibiotic prophylaxis based on piperacillin/tazobactam and ...
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Low-Level Antimicrobials in the Medicinal Leech Select for Resistant Pathogens That Spread to Patients [PDF]
mBio, 2018 Fluoroquinolones (FQs) and ciprofloxacin (Cp) are important antimicrobials that pollute the environment in trace amounts. Although Cp has been recommended as prophylaxis for patients undergoing leech therapy to prevent infections by the leech gut ...
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