Medicinal pijawka - Hirudo medicinalis

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

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

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