Therapeutic properties of hirudotherapy:

general reflexogenic   hypotensive
bloodletting   immunopotentiating
internal decongestion   bacteriostatic
anticoagulant   anti-inflammatory
protective antithrombotic   local anti-edematous
thrombolytic   analgesic
removal of microcirculation disorders   antiatherosclerotic
anti-ischemic   removal of abnormal intersystem interactions
 

Wonder-doctor called leech.

      The applied medicine has hundreds years experience in the struggle against the human diseases. Dozens thousands of different mixtures, tablets, vaccines, drugs, etc. have been created – and all of them effect the human treatment. And why do the professional doctors again and again apply to the traditional methods of treatment preferring old remedies tested by our ancestors? There is no secret in that… All these methods are grounded on the natural roots. That is why our medical center applied to the ancient method of "treatment for hundreds diseases" - Hirudotherapy.

      Hirudotherapy (from Latin hirudo-leech) is known since ancient times. Along with the general bloodletting, it has been considered as a necessary remedy in treatment for different diseases.
      Secret of salivary glands of medical leech contains more than 100 bioactive substances and has anti-edematous, bacteriostatic, analgesic, resolving actions, it eliminates microcirculation disorders, restores damaged vascular permeability of tissues and organs, eliminates hypoxia (oxygen starvation), reduces blood pressure, increases immune system activity, detoxifies the organism, releases it from the threatening complications, such as infarct, stroke, improves bioenergetic status of the organism.
      The way of leech secret injection is very simple: being placed on the skin it bites the skin, then the secret of the leech saliva falls into the blood channel and goes to the disease focus through vessels.
      In the treatment we use hirudoreflexotherapy placing the leeches on the reflexogenic points as a "Life needle".
       Indications for treatment with medicinal leeches:
- cardiovascular diseases, including essential hypertension and ischemia disease, phlebogene diseases of the lower extremities;
- chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, bronchial asthma;
- gastrointestinal tract diseases (hepatitis, cholecystitis, pancreatitis, stomach ulcer);
- ENT diseases;
- paradontosis and other teeth diseases;
- urological diseases;
- male sterility;
- skin diseases (neurodermatitis, psoriasis, eczema, herpes);
- gynaecological disorders (commissural processes in the small pelvis, female sterility, chronic adnexitis, parametritis, endometriosis, fibromastopathy);
- systemic diseases (rheumatic arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma);
- osteochondrosis and radiculitis;
- eyes diseases, including glaucoma;
- infantile cerebral paralysis (ICP) and other diseases.

 

 

 

Bioactive substances of the medicinal leeches:

1. Hirudin
2. Hyaluronidase
3. Pseudohirudin
4. Destabilase
5. Apyrase
6. Bdellines
7. Eglines
8. Kininases
9. Histamine-like substances
10. Collagenase
11. Leech prostanoids
12. Inhibitor of kallikrein of the blood plasma
13. Proteases
14. Lipolytic enzymes
15. Intibitor of Xa factor of the blood coagulation
16. Triglyceridase
17. Cholesterol esterase
18. Lipase

 

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