Myths of hirudotherapy
The person of everyday consciousness loves to create myths. They are needed by most of us in order to be sure of the positive result of the treatment. Just do not think that hirudotherapy always helps with any disease. But today there are myths in hirudotherapy which should not be believed.
This is not true. On the one hand, there are many diseases or conditions of the body, in which only hirudotherapy is not enough, for example, heart attacks, strokes, acute inflammatory processes, other diseases of internal organs, lack of trace elements in the blood. On the other hand, in some painful conditions, experts do not recommend putting leeches. These are fevers, allergies, acute infectious diseases, septic conditions, toxicosis, hemophilia. In such cases with the help of medicines an acute inflammatory process is removed, and in the remission phase a hirudotherapy course is conducted.
It is known that before the revolution put up to 50 leeches per session. Of course, this was not the first session, and the leeches were not allowed to drink the blood to the full. Modern methods of hirudotherapeutic treatment of endocrine diseases suggest setting up to 40 leeches per one session. Specialists spend one or two such sessions per month. After four or five months, there is a visual positive result.
With such diseases as gangrene, prostate adenoma, mastopathy, diabetes, obesity, in one session they put up to 100 leeches. As soon as they are sucked, they are removed. Before and after such sessions, patients are recommended to drink up to seven liters of fluid per day.
In hirudotherapy today there are two opposing points of view: some believe that in one session it is necessary to put no more than five or seven leeches, others put up to 70. Of course, this is allowed only in hirudotherapy clinics. At home, especially in the first sessions, you need to put no more than five leeches.
There is a method of treatment of a number of mental illnesses, including schizophrenia and epilepsy: the patient is shaved head and put from 30 to 70 leeches. Remove them one or two minutes after sucking. A large concentration in the patient's blood of the beneficial substances that the medicinal leech secretes, completely restores the necessary balance of trace elements in the diseased organism.
Tibetan healers put leeches on bioenergetic centers for more than a hundred years. In our country, this practice appeared not so long ago. Applicants for "authorship" in this technique are several: Western doctors quite often rediscover what has long been used by eastern specialists. It also happens that ideas are carried in the air and several people come to mind at the same time.
In clinics of hirudotherapy for the purpose of prevention, usually begin treatment from five centers: the perineum, pubis, navel, solar plexus, the distance between the eyebrows. It is believed that in those areas where there is more blood and where it is darker, the inflammatory process is more pronounced. Patients with increased pressure put leeches "from top to bottom", those who have low blood pressure - "from the bottom up".
This is another stumbling block in modern hirudotherapy, setting on the fact that the leech is a disposable syringe, also came to us from Tibet. The leech removes negative energy from the person and for this reason it is better not to set it again. And of course, you do not need to use the "natural healers" again to a person not dedicated to the secrets of this profession. Firstly, because the same leeches can not be put to different people. Secondly, because caring for them also requires certain knowledge.
Some girudoterapevty give patients leeches for re-staging, explaining how to properly handle them. As is known, medical leeches again "become useful" not earlier than in 3-4 months. In their opinion, people should not destroy those who helped him. In the third and subsequent times, leeches should be placed without complete bleeding.
In the literature, you can meet and recommendations after the second session "milk" leech: in a saucer pour water, add half a teaspoon of salt and dip a leech there. After she starts to spit out the blood, lower her head down and lightly touch her body down from top to bottom.
The opinion that after such a "milking" leech develops a useful secret much faster - in a half to two months - scientifically not confirmed. But nevertheless, this method is widely used and does not prevent the leech from benefiting its patients.
Biologists sometimes say that the leech itself finds reflexogenic points and bites the patient's skin only in places of acupuncture. Girudoterapevty, who managed to talk to the author of this book and who treat patients for more than ten years, are skeptical about this. They believe that the leech can "sit down" anywhere. But she has her own "conditions": the part of her body chosen by her should be warm and devoid of hair.
At home, it is not recommended to allow the leech to choose the places of the bite itself. Typically, the radius of its suction is limited to a glass bottle, through which it is put on the skin. It is strictly forbidden to put leeches at home on the following areas of the body:
on large blood vessels, veins and arteries;
under the tongue and the gums;
on the eyes;
inside the vagina and directly onto the male genitalia.
The professional girudoterapevtov, with whom lucky enough to communicate the author of the book, the attitude to this myth is unequivocal: this has never been and can not be. But after thinking, the doctors add: "Although, you know, some patients ask about it."Patients who do not yet have reason to "trust a leech" sometimes doubt: "Now they will put me a leech, and then. .."
As they think, they have reason to doubt the leech: in some patients on the second or third day afterhurudotherapy session "jump out" furuncles. And not directly in the place of setting leeches and not even near him."Never such was not!- the patients are surprised.- Is this leech somehow infected me? ยป
It's out of the question, although boils really do jump up. In the pamphlet by VA Savinov, TN Chaban, G, D. Kaverznev, VG Kudinov, and N. S. Sergeeva "Hirudotherapy technique. The manual for beginners "is explained as follows:" Hyaluronidase leech secret reveals the foci of latent infection. "Specialists recommend in such cases to put a leech directly on the boil, if, of course, its origin is not caused by direct scratching of the wound.
Many years ago, scientists conducted experiments and proved that inside the leech there is a bacterium. It not only kills an infection that absorbs the small body of a "natural doctor" in someone else's blood, but also cures the infections of its patients.
There is a theory according to which the most common disease today is trichomoniasis. With a prolonged course of the microbes are collected in plaques, then in capsules and concentrated in a certain, most vulnerable part of the body. A large accumulation of them in the human body provokes cancer. Useful substances of medical leeches, penetrating into human tissues, cleanse his body, promote the resorption of capsules and, thus, become a preventive measure of cancer.
In some clinics hirudotherapy is treated with leeches oncology. In others, it is believed that this diagnosis is one of the contraindications, in which no leech can ever be used. Both those and other experts agree in one thing: at home, you can not treat neither benign nor malignant tumors.
Since it is difficult to harm leeches, today one can also find such a point of view: "Wherever you put to yourself leeches, they will still help you! All schemes and recommendations are conditional! Begin a prophylaxis or treatment from an area that you yourself feel is necessary. "
Most modern girudoterapevtov recommend at home to put the leech on the projection of the liver. This is due to two points. Firstly, it is clear how the leech behaves, how much blood flows out of the wound, after which it is more convenient to take care of. Secondly, dyskinesia of bile ducts is a disease of the century. It is now found in 85% of healthy people at first glance. But only at first glance - if you look closely into their eyes, you will notice that their proteins are a little yellowish or grayish in color. Stagnant phenomena in the liver lead to cardiovascular diseases, varicose veins, urological and gynecological diseases. Therefore, we can say that by arranging the prophylaxis of your liver, you help your body to prevent a number of negative consequences of biliary dyskinesia.