MEDICINAL LEECH BREEDING
In our computerized, fully automated laboratory we breed:
- Hirudo Medicinalis
- Hirudo Verbana
SELLING
Our Company sells only medical leeches quarantined for at least 5 months. We sell leeches to hospitals, clinics, Hirudo internists, pharmacists, vets and natural persons (prior use of medical leeches, please consult a your personal doctor). It is important to mention that the Washington Convention protects leeches, thus in order to sell the leeches outside the EU, the CITES permission is required.
SHIPPING
We ship our leeches thourought the world. A delivery period in Lithuania is 1 working day. A delivery period in EU depends on a locality a batch has to reach. For more details, please contact us
MEDICINAL LEECHES
The medicinal leeches supplied by our Company are bred only under laboratory conditions. Such method enables us to control storage conditions, feeding, breeding and quarantining totally. Medicinal leeches are fed only with pig’s blood, supplied by a certified Company which follow all the standards for the highest quality. Feeding of medicinal leeches depends on a size of a leech itself and other characteristics. Since a leech reaches a weight appropriate for sale, it is quarantined at least 5 months. After quarantine medicinal leeches are ready for use. Medicinal leeches are transported in special containers, which ensure ‘a freshness’ of a product.
Currently, the new tendency to treat using leeches is observed again. It is not a fashion screech, but a sign that people started paying more attention to their health. Current researches confirmed that a treatment using leeches is often more efficient if compared with use of drugs. Leeches, unlike many drugs, do not cause any undesirable side effects; do not affect digestive and nervous systems. Thus a treatment using medical leeches in addition to a traditional medical treatment is applied in 35 advanced clinics of the World. The effect of a treatment highly depends on the preparation of a specialist applying hirudotherapy. Medical leeches are used in both, general medicine and surgical, treatments.
The effect of a medical leech on a human’s organism can be ternary.
- when a medical leech bites, it stimulates human’s skin receptors. The stimulated receptors reflexively change the functions of the central nervous system and the internal organs.
- when leeches suck the blood, they inject active substances into a human’s circulatory system, which stimulate system functions of all the organisms and restore their normal activity.
- reduce a blood amount in a human’s organism.
Treatment using medical leeches is applied in many clinical medicine fields:
- Cardiology
- Dermatology
- Stomatology
- Ophthalmology
- Gynaecology
- Microsurgery
Speaking about application of medical leeches it is easier to identify diseases, when such treatment is not recommended. One of the diseases is haemophilia.
