Leech Hirudotherapy
Baku, March 10 (AZERTAC). Hirudotherapy is a treatment using medical leeches. This kind of therapy is known from the time of extreme antiquity and is still alive nowadays. This fact testifies its efficiency in healing various kinds of illnesses and diseases. The method of hirudotherapy is approved by many countries. The enormous experience of using medicinal leeches in medical purposes is saved up during many centuries. With the development of science the mechanism of action of a secret of salivary glands of leeches was deciphered, biologically active substances which are included in it were opened,their influence on the certain structures of an alive organism is investigated. Some medical forms are created on a basis of biologically active substances of salivary glands of leeches and work on creation of new substances is conducting. Modern hirudotherapy differs from the ancient one because now we do not use wild leeches: instead we use leeches grown at special biofactories where they are in a severe quarantine. Besides, nowadays we use a leech only once. This fact completely excludes the chance of infecting a patient. The obvious advantage and absolute safety of hirudotherapy is checked up by thousands of years of experience of mankind and does not cause any doubts. One of the first substances found in salivary glands of medicinal leech is hirudin-the substance oppressing the process of blood clotting. Then such anticoagulating substances as ferment destabilaza,ingibitors of plazmine,callecrein of plasmine and others were opened. Factors of diffusion-ferments of gialuronidaza,collagenaza,the factors appressing the mediators of pain-cininaza,antisclerous factors were investigated as well. Again opened substances are studied. Thus,a medicinal leech is a small “factory” manufacturing biologically active substances. Hirudotherapy may be applied at any diseases known nowadays. It can be used as an independent method of treating and in complex with the others. Doctors know perfectly well how it is difficult to struggle with chronic inflammatory diseases. The matter is that at all varieties of clinical displays of illnesses mechanisms of protection of an organism are universal-emission mediators of inflammation,vazoconstrictors,apireties and some other biologically active substances into blood. Everything comes to aspiration of a live organism to delimit the nidus of inflammation by deterioration of blood circulation and capillary-tissue permeability,creation of an inflammatory shaft by cellular and conjunctive tissue structure and a temperature mode in the given area.As a result of it the concentration of drugs for example an antibiotic in the nidus of inflammation is much lower than in blood. The increase of a dose of a chemical drug doesn`t solve a problem because leads to excessive allergy and strikes a blow on other organs-(on liver,kidneys,spinal cord,endocrin glands). As a result we have a lot of problems: disbacteriosis,hepatitis,nephropathy,immune deficiency conditions,but the problem of chronic inflammation for a given patient is not solved. Here it`s a time to recollect about hirudotherapy. Biologically active substances containing in saliva glands of medicinal leeches can restore blood circulation in the nidus of inflammation, remove an ischemia of organs, provide capillary tissue exchange and due to it can carry out the transport of chemical drugs into the nidus of inflammation, improve immune protection and regeneration of tissues. In such conditions the using of the same chemical drugs is possible in smaller doses. These factors do not limit the abilities of hirudotherapy to influence the nidus of inflammation.
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