Thanks Dr. Kadus for this useful information on practice of using leeches for curing, otherwise I was wondering about what I had seen nearly 58 years back: Blood sucking by leeches to cure sick persons.
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:33 PM, arvind kadus <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear frnds, > In Ayurveda Blood letting or *Raktamokshana *is one of the important * > Panchakarma* process which is carried out by Leeches, used in many We are > using leeches in our daily practice. Some peoples from Satara, Amboli are > providing leeches in pune for sale.We get it from the distributers. This > Blood letting process in not harmful and we didn't have seen any patient of > allergy by the leeches. After sufficient sucking of blood leech became > drousy and it automatically releases the body. Bleeding continues till the > *Hirudin* ( One of the anticoagulant that leech have) is there.After that > we put *Termeric Powder* over the wound , then bleeding stops. Some times > when we have to remove leeches prior to time we always put Termeric powder > over the mouth of leech. After the completion of the process we have to > *squeez > the leeches* to omitte the blood out. With the help of Termeric powder and > our hands we complete this procesure. We can use these used leeches > again.These all the processes are mentioned in Ayurvedic Basic Texts as the > *Raktamokshana.* We the Ayurvedic practitioner are familier with these > processes. One more information that God Of Medical Science i.e.* 'Lord > Dhanwantari'* is holding this important instrument of Panchakarma* ' Leech > "*, in his hand. > While in forest to protect from the leeches or to remove the leeches we can > use *1. Tobacco ( Mostly available), 2. Termeric powder, 3. perfumes or > strong essences*. > > Regards, Dr. Kadus Arvind ,Pune. > >
