Medicinal bdellas - Hirudo medicinalis

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

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

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