I watch late night show last night and actress Demi Moore and David Letherman are talking about leeches! David ask him about her beauty and health secret and Demi told him about Medical leeches, thats yak and ewww I'm trembling when I saw even one leech.
According to Demi, She do it somewhere at Austria if I heard it right. She said the process is you lie down on bed and the Dr. will place the leeches on your belly button, then the leech will crawl to your belly button and suck your blood, and it will just fall off if its already full. aaaarrrggggggg.
I really research about their topic and in shock to find out that yes even on our ancient times like Egyptian and Aztec they used leeches to cure sick people 2500 years ago. And France use the method on 1800 century, and made popular again on early 1920s.
And in 1986, Dr. Charles Lent of Utah State University reported in the journal Nature that leeches can be useful after the transplantation and reattachment of tissues. Lent reported that leeches can help to restore normal blood flow in certain damaged parts of the body. Basically, leeches can help because they have a natural anticoagulant (a substance that prevents blood from clotting and forming scabs) in their saliva. When leeches attach to the skin, they can help repair the venous (veins are part of your circulatory system and are where the blood flows through on the way back to your heart) system in the damaged area. Once normal venous flow is restored in the damaged area of the body, the leech can be removed. Some surgeons now occasionally use these little creatures to help with certain procedures. So, the next time you see a picture of a leech, don’t scream and yell “Yuck”. These little creatures can actually help us.