#Leech worm:
It is a rare type of worm that lives in stagnant fresh water such as ponds and swamps, where it spreads in most countries of the world and is more present in Europe.
It has been known since ancient times and before medicine developed to its current form, a type of worm that sucks some blood from the patient's body, and it was believed that the exit of this amount of blood from the body leads to recovery from the disease.
When the leech is attached to the patient's body, the saliva contains biologically active substances, including anticoagulants, vasodilators, and substances that numb the bite site or fixate on the surface of the skin.
#Leech Saliva Ingredients:
- Vasodilator: a vasodilator, which works to expand blood vessels, which acts as a substitute for Adiantra, which is used by patients with heart disease and angina pectoris.
- Hirudin is a “blood blocker” which is a substance that prevents blood clots from being sold in pharmacies at exorbitant prices.
- Also, leeches are used in the manufacture of middle ear medicines.
- Hyaluronidase enzyme increases skin permeability.
- The tryptase inhibitor is a substance produced by mast-type white cells in the blood.
- Eglins are seen as an anti-eglial substance that results from the presence of some enzymes such as chyme enzyme and alpha-chymotrypsin.
- Histamine-like substances.
- Acetylcholine.
- Local anesthetics.
#Leech benefits:
- Leech worms work to pull the excess from the blood pools under the skin.
- It removes the pressure that occurs when the blood pooling occurs under those skin patches that are installed in the place of the vanishing skin in some areas of the body, and if this is not done, those skin patches may die, and the surgical procedure will fail.
- Preventing clots or clots from occurring.
- Treatment of acute and chronic angina pectoris.
- Treatment of rheumatic diseases and incurable rheumatoid.
- Treating chronic tinnitus in the ears, which many traditional treatments do not work with.
- It digests complex proteins in the blood and turns them into simple compounds that are easy for leeches to absorb and benefit from.
- The leeches provide 12, which is not available in the blood meal.
- Prevents the entry of any other type of harmful bacteria into the body of the leeches.
- It maintains the storage of blood inside the crop during the fasting period for 6 months without being damaged, due to its secretion of some enzymes that prevent blood damage and remains efficient.
- The occurrence of hemorrhoids or anal varicose veins.
- Cardiovascular disease such as angina pectoris and cardiac infarction.
- Atherosclerosis cases.
#Studies and research on leeches:
A study has proven the effectiveness of leeches, as scientific research departments extract hirudin from the worm’s saliva, which is used in the manufacture of anti-blood-clotting drugs that are sold at high and high prices, given their medical importance.
A research study concluded that the use of leeches for patients with knee arthritis relieves a lot of the affected pain, and more than the use of ointments recommended by modern medicine. However, it is still used in many cases, especially in the treatment of complications that may occur after surgical operations. Scientists believe that the leech helps relieve pain through a biologically active substance that is secreted with the saliva of the leech.
It has been recently proven in a study that leeches secrete anticoagulants and cause blood vessels to expand, thus returning blood flow to the inflamed parts of the body, and some complementary surgeries have succeeded, which have lacerations in tissues, for example restoring the fingers, feet, ear and nipple, as the leeches benefit In distributing blood efficiently during the grafting process after the excision of a cancerous tumor from the breast, and also as a means of physical therapy to get rid of joint pain, a Russian research team described their success in using these blood-sucking worms to treat osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
The treatment of these worms has become widely spread in most countries of the world.
