In the medical centers of TsDMED, you can take a course of treatment with leeches in St. Petersburg. The cost of a hirudotherapy session is from 800 rubles.

Hirudotherapy: treatment with leeches in St. Petersburg

Hirudotherapy in St. Petersburg again, as two centuries ago, one of the most popular procedures. The development of medical scientific thought has led scientists to use the medicinal leech as an extremely effective, yet safe for humans, means to cleanse blood vessels, eliminate and prevent blood clots.

More than 100 bioactive substances enter the bloodstream during a leech bite session. The main ones are anticoagulants, anesthetics and analgesics. They act in a complex way on the whole body and help in the treatment of diseases that are especially difficult to treat – neuritis, vertebral hernias, osteochondrosis of various localization.

The main active ingredients of leech saliva are hirudin, bdellin, apyrase, eglin, destabilase.

Hirudin is the most powerful natural anticoagulant.

Bdellin acts as an anti-inflammatory

Apyrase dilutes blood flow, because it is the strongest antiaggregant factor for platelets

Eglin stops and relieves inflammation, acts as an antioxidant

Destabilase effectively dissolves blood clots

Hirudotherapy in the medical centers of JSC "SZTsDM" in St. Petersburg

Indications for treatment with leeches

Hirudotherapy in most cases is used to cleanse blood vessels and as a remedy for neuritis. However, the therapeutic effect of treatment with leeches is much wider:

phlebitis and thrombotic conditions;

coronary thrombosis and coronary heart disease;

prevention of postoperative blood coagulation;

osteochondrosis, hernia and protrusion;

pinching of the sciatic nerve;

other pathologies of the spine of various etiologies;

pain and inflammation in osteoarthritis;

phlebeurysm;

The course of hirudotherapy contributes to the overall strengthening of the body and the activation of metabolic processes. The flow of blood and lymph is accelerated, which leads to a more efficient and faster cleansing of tissues and cells from toxins. The action of bioactive substances of snail saliva and accelerated metabolism helps to relieve inflammation, swelling, and the cleansing of blood vessels harmonizes blood pressure.

Contraindications:

poor blood clotting and hemophilia;

tumors of various etiologies;

The possibility of treatment with leeches is determined by the doctor, considering not only individual diseases, but also the general condition of the person. Therefore, hirudotherapy – in order to avoid undesirable effects and serious problems – should be carried out only in medical centers and clinics where experienced doctors work and the health of patients is treated responsibly.

Features of treatment with leeches

Leech treatment in our medical centers is carried out using pure medical biomaterial, specially grown for therapeutic purposes.Each leech is used only 1 time.

The course begins with the identification of problems and the required number of sessions. The first session is to determine the immune response to a leech bite. For this, the patient is given one leech. If allergy does not occur, full therapy is continued from the second session.

The leech has three-sided jaws with about 100 tiny sharp teeth on each. Therefore, at the moment of a bite, a person feels a slight pain, which, thanks to anesthetics in the saliva of the animal, immediately disappears. The anticoagulants contained in saliva cause a prolonged (from 2 to 12 hours), but not abundant bleeding from the wound.

A leech is planted on the skin for an average of 20-45 minutes, during which it sucks out 5-15 ml of blood. According to the indication and the condition of the person, the doctor can leave the leech until it falls off by itself, or remove it a short time after the bite – this practice is used in the treatment of elderly or especially weak patients.

The effect of leeches on the human body

If in the twentieth century, treatment with leeches was considered something forever gone from evidence-based medicine, now hirudotherapy in Europe and America is recognized as a promising and effective method of treatment.

Some of its positive effects, as well as the composition of leech saliva, are still poorly understood. Research is being carried out on the use of hirudotherapy for oncological diseases, diabetes, psoriasis, angina pectoris, and a pronounced positive effect of animal saliva in healing gums and other diseases of the oral cavity has been proven.

Today, it is no longer so important to put leeches for the sake of “thinning the blood” – hirudotherapy helps fight the destruction of intervertebral discs, chronic and acute pain in spinal hernias. Treatment with leeches can stop the development of shoulder, knee arthritis, arthrosis of the joints, strengthens overall immunity.