Medicinal pijawki - Hirudo medicinalis

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

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

Apart from the classical areas for the medicinal pijawki for 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 pijawki helps to improve a venous conguestion in case of e.g.reimplanting a lost finger through an accidant.