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Sale and delivery of medicinal leeches
We sell leeches hospitals, drugstores, classrooms hirudotherapy, private individuals. Includes veterinary certificates and pharmacological.
Medical Company "MEDICUS" engaged in cultivation and sale of leeches since 1975. The company is located in the Lviv region, in the picturesque Carpathian Drogobych, near the famous resort Truskavets.
"Medicus", a well-known supplier of leeches in hospitals and pharmacies in Western Ukraine, collaborates with many girudoterapevtami country. Western Ukraine is rich in the tradition of using medicinal leeches. Leeches are bred and sold in Germany and France during the time of the Austrian Empire and Poland. Today hirudotherapy reviving again, its effectiveness scientifically proven, there is practically no such disease, which can not be treated with leeches. Every year the demand for leeches increases.
Specialists of the enterprise, for many years worked on by the rapid growth of medical leeches. After searching the archives of scientific publications of Lviv University, used the experience of our colleagues in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Now the number of leeches, grown in the "Medicus" - fully meets the needs of the region, quality leech - implemented throughout the year.
We welcome cooperation with medical and pharmaceutical workers, all persons interested in the development and popularization of hirudotherapy.
History
The history of the use of leeches for medicinal purposes, is rooted in centuries. Even in ancient times, our ancestors discovered the distant unique healing properties of this animal. The first information on the use of leeches in medical purposes related to Ancient Egypt. Archaeologists claim that the images of scenes of leeches can be found among the frescoes of the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs. Powder from dried and crushed leeches, use of the Chinese doctors. Treatment with leeches widely used Roman physician Claudius Galen, he mentioned about leeches in his writings, he considered them as quite an effective remedy for various ailments. Persian scientist Avicenna, whom contemporaries called the "Prince of Physicians", in his "Canon of Medicine", has paid great attention to the application of leeches, he describes the healing power of leeches to help with tuberculosis, hysteria and epilepsy, concussion, as well as diseases of the joints, liver, and kidneys. Note, incidentally, what a wide range of many diseases he lists - from epilepsy to Hepatitis!
It is known that a leech, prisasyvayas to skin a human or animal, gently bite it and suck a small amount of blood, approximately 10-15ml. That's bloodletting with leeches and was considered a universal means of treatment. It has been used for diseases of the heart, liver, lung, stomach, eye, tuberculosis and many other ailments. They used leeches in ancient Greece. Famous healer Hippocrates, whose oath, receiving a diploma, give all the young doctors, said: "The doctor treats, nature cures." Leech is just part of nature, its small, but very efficient doctor. The Greek name of the leech - giruda "survived to our days - in modern medicine treatment called leech - hirudotherapy.
The importance of leeches in medicine of the past centuries was so great, as reflected in the name of a single species of leech, which has long been used for therapeutic purposes. The great Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus, in 1758, restoring order among the world's invertebrates, without a moment's hesitation gave leech Latin name: Hirudo medicinalis - medical leech, thereby forever ranked species to the drug.
Period of prosperity leech therapy can be considered XVIII-XIX century. Leeches when they feared much more than many drugs. Prospered and piyavochny fishing. Leeches in the export of Russia took place on a par with corn, which is an important source of income for the state treasury. Up to 70 million small savers annually exported to the countries of Western Europe. Especially in Germany and France, and one thing worth 10 kopecks (for comparison: the chicken could be bought for 20 cents).
At the beginning of last century leech won the "red corner pharmacy. The most popular, this method was in France: from the records of Napoleon knows that only from Hungary during the year were imported six million leeches for the treatment of soldiers of his army. Mastered the methods of Ladder leeches our Russian barbers, saving a walk in the morning well before the merchant: just a couple of leeches behind the ears and hangover syndrome disappeared. A fashionista in preparation for the ball, putting leeches behind the ears for the appearance of blush on the cheeks and eyes to give a special shine, with dancing until dawn, and were not so tedious.
Pirogov, the synthesis of observations martial practice during the Crimean War and the Caucasian expedition said: "I put 100 to 200 leeches a day. Even in simple fractures, where only slight swelling was observed, immediately leech. Of the last forces to help a dying friend, a military doctor VI Dal put mortally wounded Pushkin in the stomach 25 leeches. Fever and abdominal inflation will decrease, the pulse becomes smoother. "It was a moment of hope" - later Dahl.
Obtained in 1884 by Prof. K. Dyakov extract from the body leech, called hirudin, served as the starting material for isolation and study of biologically active substances released into the bloodstream of the body by using leeches. After all, before it was considered that the treatment is mainly due to the fact that the leech sucks "bad blood". Indeed, the leech sucks from 3 to 5 cubic centimeters of blood. The effect of bloodletting, for example, high blood pressure - a thing known and useful. But later it turned out that it is not that a leech sucking the blood of the patient, and that her saliva, into human beings, has a unique healing properties. It contains over 60 biologically active substances that are able to cope even with serious illnesses. Medical leech injects into the body in one session over a hundred bioactive drugs! They exert anti-inflammatory effect, intensifying the local capillary blood circulation, improve the supply of tissues with oxygen and nutrients, prevent blood clots, dissolve fresh thrombi. There is every reason to call a leech pharmaceutical mini-factory.
A key enzyme piyavochnogo secret - hyaluronidase, with all his other biologically active substances that are part of the secret, absorbed by the body - penetrating into the tissue to a depth of several centimeters. Thus, the therapeutic effect is achieved not by suction, and opposite, by injection. That's such a unique syringe in the form of leeches, nature gave us! Not yet studied in the mechanism of action of leech.
Research scientists are continuing in our days, reluctantly reveals its secrets ancient and mysterious leech ...
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