Once considered a "medieval" therapy, leeches have gained new respect for their ability to reduce blood buildup and increase blood flow into severed appendages. They have been most successful in ...

Once feared as a parasitic menace, the leech an ancient blood-sucking creature is making a comeback in modern medicine and ...

Bloodletting was central to medieval medical practice. It used leeches or sharp knife-like instruments to nick the vein and cause blood to drain from the body.

The impression of leeches as merely medieval also fails to acknowledge their lasting influence, Siddall said. People first started using leeches in medicine in India about 5,000 years ago.

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Would you attach one of these to your belly button The leech still has medicinal applications, but celebrity endorsements aside, detoxification might not be one of them.