The medical applications of the medicinal leech.?
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Dear Rohit,\n\nI have searched for the iformation, assessed,and found these articles.  I hope these help.\n\n"Beyond Bloodletting: FDA Gives Leeches a Medical Makeover" by Carol Rados listed in US Food and Drug Administration >http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2004/504_leech.html\n\n"It's Official: Leeches Are Medical Applications" by E.J. Mundell on Health On The Net Foundation >http://www.hon.ch/News/HSN/519818.html\n\n"Leeches in Modern Medicine" by Bruce I. Minkin, M.D. on Carolina.com >http://www.carolina.com/manuals/manuals3/Leeches%20in%20Modern%20Medicine.pdf.\n\n>>> Naveen Kumar\n\n\nhttp://www.hon.ch/News/HSN/519818.html
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They are used. I hear more about maggot being used the leeched.They help to clean out deep wound, making it heal quicker. Still wouldn't like knowing i have maggots in me. YucK.
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I'd be willing to bet worms might be interested. And maybe fishermen. :)
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This website includes MANY answers to your question, I think.  I'm a Chemical Engineer, so this isn't quite up my alley, but I think this will help!\n\nhttp://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/malabsorption_syndrome.jsp
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Try this link:\n\nhttp://www.amberjewelry.com/Amber_in_Therapeutics_p1.htm
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Certainly.\nELEPHANTITIS or ELEPHANTIASIS\nCauses, Symptoms & Definitions. \nThis article, presented in it's entirety, is owned and copyrighted by Vhi Healthcare. 2000 - 2005 \nAll rights acknowledged. This article is for information purposes only, if you dispay any of the symptoms shown herein, CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR. - Click on Anti - Parasite to return to the A-P page.\n\n\nDefinition\nThe word elephantitis or elephantiasis is a vivid and accurate term for the syndrome it describes: the gross (visible) enlargement of the arms, legs, or genitals to elephantoid size.\n\nDescription\nTrue elephantiasis is the result of a parasitic infection caused by three specific kinds of round worms. The long, threadlike worms block the body's lymphatic system--a network of channels, lymph nodes, and organs that helps maintain proper fluid levels in the body by draining lymph from tissues into the bloodstream. \n\nThis blockage causes fluids to collect in the tissues, which can lead to great swelling, called "lymphedema." Limbs can swell so enormously that they resemble an elephant's foreleg in size, texture, and color. This is the severely disfiguring and disabling condition of elephantiasis.\n\nThere are a few different causes of elephantiasis, but the agents responsible for most of the elephantiasis in the world are filarial worms: white, slender round worms found in most tropical and subtropical places. They are transmitted by particular kinds (species) of mosquitoes, that is, bloodsucking insects. Infection with these worms is called "lymphatic filariasis" and over a long period of time can cause elephantiasis.\n\nLymphatic filariasis is a disease of underdeveloped regions found in South America, Central Africa, Asia, the Pacific Islands, and the Caribbean. It is a disease that has been present for centuries, as ancient Persian and Indian writings clearly described elephant-like swellings of the arms, legs, and genitals. It is estimated that 120 million people in the world have lymphatic filariasis, as of 1997. The disease appears to be spreading, in spite of decades of research in this area.\n\nOther terms for elephantiasis are Barbados leg, elephant leg, morbus herculeus, mal de Cayenne, and myelolymphangioma. Other situations that can lead to elephantiasis are: a protozoan disease called leishmaniasis a repeated streptococcal infection the surgical removal of lymph nodes (usually to prevent the spread of cancer) a hereditary birth defect Causes and symptoms.\n\nThree kinds of round worms cause elephantiasis filariasis: Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, and Brugia timori. Of these three, W. bancrofti makes up about 90% of the cases. Man is the only known host of W. bancrofti. Culex, Aedes, and Anopheles mosquitoes are the carriers of W. bancrofti. Anopheles and Mansonia mosquitoes are the carriers of B. malayi. In addition, Anopheles mosquitoes are the carriers of B. timori. Infected female mosquitoes take a blood meal from a human, and in doing so, introduce larval forms of the particular parasite they carry to the person.\n\nThese larvae migrate toward a lymphatic channel, then travel to various places within the lymphatic system, usually positioning themselves in or near lymph nodes throughout the body. During this time, they mature into more developed larvae and eventually into adult worms. Depending upon the species of round worm, this development can take a few months or more than a year. The adult worms grow to about 1 in (2.5 cm) to 4 in (10 cm) long.\n\nThe adult worms can live from about three to eight years. Some have been known to live to 20 years, and in one case 40 years. The adult worms begin reproducing numerous live embryos, called microfilariae. The microfilariae travel to the bloodstream, where they can be ingested by a mosquito when it takes a blood meal from the infected person. If they are not ingested by a mosquito, the microfilariae die within about 12 months. If they are ingest
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Ask a specialist or a person whose job is to do such things.\nSorry, but I do not believe anyone here can be precise.
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Leeches are pretty hardy creatures and will survive quite a while if kept in cool, fairly clean water.  In a covered container kept in a refrigerator they will live for weeks or months if you change the water once a week or so.  Keep the container covered or they may crawl out of the container and die without being in water.
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Please go to pub-med.org and research lycium barbarum. There are 72 published studies there.
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See:\n\nhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000949.htm
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go here... http://faculty.uca.edu/~march/bio2/ratdraw.htm
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yes, and its a great alternative to todays medicines.\ngo to an herb store and ask about it. there willing to help in anyway. good luck
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Ask in the medicine category.  They may have more insight.
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Try searching the internet for "the zapper". It's a device that sends small electrical pulses and energy through the body on specific frequencies to eliminate parasites and diseases. I don't know much about it, but I remember hearing about it a few years ago.
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This looks interesting\n\nhttp://www.curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=596&i=6
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http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/medicines/100002190.html
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Just visit the site below..\n\nhttp://www.wildmadagascar.org/overview/leeches.html