Ethnopharmacological relevance Mexico has great biodiversity of fauna. The use of fauna
with medicinal properties is a common practice since pre-Hispanic times. In the last decade …

Objective: The principle of the use of leeches is associated with traditional medicine of many
countries and its application has different philosophies for use in different areas of the body …

Exposure to leeches in the wilderness setting is common. Leeches may attach themselves to
exposed skin or pass through one of the body's orifices and attach internally. The condition …

Background Leeches have gained a fearsome reputation by feeding externally on blood,
often from human hosts. Orificial hirudiniasis is a condition in which a leech enters a body …

Medicinal leeches are invertebrated parasites that have been used for medical purposes for
centuries as one of the traditional treatment methods. Medicinal leeches are used for wound …

Leeches for medical use for blood-letting have a rather long tradition back to 1500 BC In
microsurgery leeches have been extensively used clinically usually for relief of venous …

This article aimed to determine the experts' opinion on the use of hirudotherapy in
cosmetology, to supplement knowledge, and to identify factors that, in the opinion of experts …

Pseudolymphoma, also known as Jessner's lymphocytic infiltration, is a benign but usually
chronic, T-cell infiltrating diseasewith erythematous papules and plaques usually seen on …

Medicinal leeches have been used in the treatment of many diseases for thousands of
years. A 25-year-old man presented to our emergency department with bleeding from right …

A 58-year-old male presented to the emergency department with a chief complaint of knee
pain and swelling after performing hirudotherapy (leech therapy) approximately one week …