What may appear to you as a squeamish leech, after you visit our website and what you read, it might stimulate the revision of your knowledge about this amazing cousin of an earth-worm and, perhaps, would help you to understand the transition process from the past medieval "LEECHING" to the PRESENT HIRUDOTHERAPY!
Welcome to the 21-st Century Drug-less Healing, a Bio-therapy with Medicinal Leeches!
NATURAL, SAFE, NO MEDICATION INVOLVED, NON-INVASIVE PROCESS OF AN ALTERNATIVE HEALING.
Welcome to the 21-st Century Drug-less Healing, a Bio-therapy with Medicinal Leeches!
NATURAL, SAFE, NO MEDICATION INVOLVED, NON-INVASIVE PROCESS OF AN ALTERNATIVE HEALING.
"Helping Nature Heal - Holistic Healing, not Medical Treatment."
 Benefits and EffectsNon-Invasive, No Side-Effects! Basically no pain involved! Leech saliva contains several bioactive substances, including anti-coagulants, blood-thinner, vaso-dilators, anesthetics, antibiotics (i.e. chloromycetyna), Hyaluronidase, Destabilase, Bdellines, Eglines, Histamine-like substances, Lipolytic enzymes, Cholesterol esterase, Lipase, Triglyceridase and many more. Leech therapy works in such a wide range of applications, (it is still not fully understood) and is based on a combination of multiple effects. - Hirudotherapy is a complex therapy and is a complementary therapy to the osteopathic medicine - THE CAUSE THERAPY. |
HIRUDOTHERAPY- through the body detoxification and blood purification, fights specific illnesses and at the same time it makes your immune system stronger and rejuvenates your body.
Positive effects: general reflexogenic, hypotensive, bloodletting, decongestion, antiatherosclerosis, and many more! Hirudin, a potent anticoagulant in leech saliva, inhibits the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin, preventing blood from clotting; hirudin is proved to be ten times more effective then heparin. "... Medicinal Leech salivary glands secretion (SGS) determines the humoral effect of hirudotherapy (medicinal leeches wounding the patient's skin followed the SGS injection) . High specificity of biological active proteins in SGS, such as hirudin, factor Xa inhibitor, triptase inhibitor, etc., determines the success of treatment done by medicinal leeches. Girudo-Med Bio-Factory, Lyubetsy, Russia.  |
The Return of the Leech
"A medical marvel rises from both the swamp and the pages of history.
"...One leech-made molecule, the powerful anticoagulant hirudin, won FDA approval in 1998. Medical researchers are now testing hirudin’s usefulness against angina and heart attacks, and other chemicals from leech saliva are under study."
by Mitchel Leslie, a freelance writer living in Albuquerque
Hirudo Medicinalis ARE FDA approved & classified under medical device since 2004.
"Helping Nature Heal - Holistic Healing, not Medical Treatment."
Copyright © 2005 - 2016 | ALA-MED Hirudotherapy Center of America & Academy of Hirudotherapy | All rights reserved
"A medical marvel rises from both the swamp and the pages of history.
"...One leech-made molecule, the powerful anticoagulant hirudin, won FDA approval in 1998. Medical researchers are now testing hirudin’s usefulness against angina and heart attacks, and other chemicals from leech saliva are under study."
by Mitchel Leslie, a freelance writer living in Albuquerque
Hirudo Medicinalis ARE FDA approved & classified under medical device since 2004.
"Helping Nature Heal - Holistic Healing, not Medical Treatment."
Copyright © 2005 - 2016 | ALA-MED Hirudotherapy Center of America & Academy of Hirudotherapy | All rights reserved
