CLINICAL AND MEDICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TREATMENT OF THE HUMAN ORGANISM WITH LEECH.

Hirudotherapy "treatment with leeches" is a method of treatment that has reached us over the centuries. Medicinal leeches are the only representatives of the fauna [animal world], which are included in pharmacology and equated to medicinal substances. The history of hirudotherapy covers more than two thousand years. Ancient Greece , in India, Egypt, China, treatment with leeches was popular. Images of leeches began to appear on the walls of the tombs of the Egyptian pharaohs