After the developments of modern medicine, leeches were not used as before, but in the late
nineteenth century, leeches were still being used in many countries around the world. Until …

Objective To review the trend of the study related to Leech therapy and to establish the
hereafter direction for the study on Leech therapy. Methods I reviewed and analyzed all the …

Leech therapy (LT) has a long history in medicine [1]. In Greek medicine, medicinal leech
was first introduced by Hippocrates. However, the popularity of LT was reinforced by the …

Hematophagous animals including leeches have been known to possess biologically active
compounds in their secretions, especially in their saliva. The blood-sucking annelids …

Medicinal leech therapy has been used for centuries. Its popularity reached its peak in the
early part of the 19th century and then plummeted for about a century only to resurge after …

Medical leech therapy, which has a history of thousands of years, is still the subject of many
scientific studies today. These studies have shown that medicinal leech therapy has …

Traditional Indian medicine—ayurveda—could be the oldest medical system in which leech
therapy was adopted for treating specific disease conditions of patients. Some of the …

Background: Although there are numerous case reports and small case series describing
the experiences of leech therapy in various circumstances, there are relatively few large …

Objectives To this day, a standardized protocol for medicinal leech therapy does not exist.
The purpose of this article was to review literature in the hope of proposing a unified …

The use of medicinal leech therapy (MLT) is the subject of many articles describing basic
pharmacological principles, application procedures, or efficacy and safety of the broad …