What Is Aquatic Therapy?

The locust therapy, researched by the German doctor Michaelson, found that using blood-sucking leech to treat knee arthritis is very effective. Compared with aspirin and other physical treatment methods, leech therapy is very effective. He once put four leeches on the knees of patients with severe knee pain for 80 minutes. The patients only felt a little uncomfortable at the beginning and they improved soon. The key to leech's "pain relief" is that its saliva contains anti-inflammatory ingredients.

Locust therapy

Locust therapy, discovered by German doctor Michaelson

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The leech is a cold-blooded mollusk that can grow and reproduce in northern and southern China. It mainly lives in reservoirs, ditches, paddy fields, and lakes in fresh water.

Summer and autumn capture. Wash after catching, suffocate with lime or wine, then dry or toast.

The key to Leech's "pain relief" lies in its saliva, Michaelson said, because its saliva contains several anti-inflammatory ingredients that can penetrate into human joint tissues. Professor Deser, professor of bacteriology at the University of Toronto, Canada, said that when a leech opened its mouth to bite, it released a series of chemicals, and some of these chemicals have the effect of reducing inflammation, which is equivalent to anti-inflammatory agents.

Ancient medical books recorded the use of ants to treat a variety of diseases, describing it as "mainly pursuing evil blood, stasis, confinement, breaking blood and accumulating ...". The medical doctor Zhang Zhongjing used his medicine to cure evils and heal righteousness to treat the symptoms of "blood stasis" and "water stagnation", showing its unique curative effect.

Later generations Zhang Xichun praised this medicine: "Storing blood stasis without hurting new blood, the essence of pure water is generated, and there is no damage to the Qi Fen silk, while blood stasis is invisible, and good medicine is also good."

Before 1500 AD, the Egyptians pioneered the medical treatment of bloodletting. By the beginning of the last century, Europeans were even more superstitious that they could suck blood from the body, regardless of headache and brain heat. Later, with the development of medicine, this superstitious treatment method was gradually abandoned. However, in recent years, the new uses of medicine in medicine are receiving widespread attention.

Plastic surgeons use medical treatment to eliminate blood stasis in the vascular occlusion area after surgery and reduce the occurrence of necrosis, thereby improving the success rate of operations such as tissue transplantation and breast formation. When medical doctors replant or transplant fingers, toes, ears, and noses, using medical doctors to suck blood can make venous blood vessels smooth, which greatly improves the success rate of surgery.

This is because the salivary glands secrete the anticoagulant hirudin and the histamine-like substances that dilate the blood vessels when the doctor sucks blood. In 1987, the Water Margin Research Group of the Institute of Aquatic Animals of the Chinese Academy of Sciences collaborated with the Department of Orthopaedics of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Hubei Medical University. In China, medical treatment was first applied to treat blood stasis after replantation of severed fingers, and several cases were successful, which were widely praised at home and abroad.

A variety of active substances contained in medical saliva are receiving widespread attention from scientists from various countries and have become a hot topic in the use of resource animals. In 1984, Dr. Sawyer, an American leech expert, founded the world's first leech breeding and biochemical drug company in Wales, UK. The hirudin and hyaluronidase produced by the company have been sold to European and American countries and Japan, and they have also been sold. Tens of thousands of live medical leech.

Recently, another medical leech farm was established in Charleston, the United States; France and Germany have transferred genes for synthesizing hirudin to yeast and E. coli, and used genetic engineering to produce cheap hirudin. It can be seen that the demand and production of hirudin are expanding.

Hirudin is a low molecular weight (7000) peptide consisting of 65 amino acids. Among them, glutamine and asparagine have higher accountants and lower isoelectric points (3.8 to 4.0), and are stable at room temperature for a long time. Hirudin is the most effective natural anticoagulant known. Its effect is better than heparin, and it has anticoagulant and thrombolytic effects. Therefore, it has shown great advantages and broad prospects in the treatment of diseases such as septic shock, atherosclerosis, cerebrovascular infarction, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, ophthalmology, and various diseases lacking antithrombin.

Insect Locust Function Indication

Amenorrhea, symptomatic abdominal pain, blood storage, pain caused by blood stasis, bloated erysipelas, etc.

"The Book of Sutras": "The main chase blood, blood stasis, moon closure, blood sacrifice accumulation, no children, water channels."

"Do not record": "Abortion."

"Compendium of Materia Medica": "People who suffer from red rash and bloated and swollen swelling, take more than ten pieces of rickets, take white skin and wrinkles, all are good."

"Materia Medica Yanyi": "Treat the wound."

Locust therapy should be avoided

Frail blood deficiency, no stasis, stop gathering and pregnant women should not take it.

"Japan and China in Materia Medica": "Fear of lime."

"Ben Cao Yan Yi": "Fear of salt."

"Essentials of Pinhui": "Pregnancy cannot be taken."

Grasshopper therapy recipe

Treating women who are suffering from menstrual fluid, also treating men with bladder full anxiety and blood stasis: thirty leeches (boil), thirty maggots (wings, feet, boil), twenty peaches (peeled, peeled, Tip), rhubarb three or two (wine dip). Take the last four flavors, use five liters of water, boil three liters, simmer, and warm one liter. ("Jin Kui Sui Lue" arrived as a soup)

The woman with blood stasis in the abdomen, unfavorable moon water, or broken or coming, full of anxiety: peach kernel thirty-two (soaked in soup, peeled, pointed, double kernels, bran fried slightly yellow), forty maggots ( Fry slightly yellow, remove wings and feet), forty pieces of Leech (fried slightly yellow), Sichuan rhubarb thirty-two (filed slightly fried). The medicine is pounded Luo, the honey is refined, and more than 100 pestles are pounded. Fifteen pills per serving with hot wine. ("Sheng Hui Fang" Taoren Wan)

Insufficient menstruation, or postpartum lochia, pain in the umbilical abdomen: cooked Rehmannia glutinosa forty-two, maggots (headless, wing-fried), water bladder (glutinous rice with fried yellow, glutinous rice), peach kernel (peeled, sharp) each . The top is the end, the honey pill, and the big tung. Five or seven pills per serving, under warm wine. ("Women's Recipe" Dihuang Tong Jing Wan)

The blood leaks after treatment is not stopped: The leech is treated under the sieve, and the wine service costs a lot of money. On the second day, the bad blood disappears. ("Thousands of Gold")

Treatment of bruises: Leeches, dried on a new tile, fine powder, hot wine, a transfer of money, fresh food, painful, more service, pain. They sealed the bone fracture medicine and clamped it with objects. ("Experience")

Treatment of gold sores, damage and falling from high, pressured by wood and stone, internal loss of blood stasis, pain in the abdomen, unreasonable urination, desperate qi: red tincture (slow fry with lime to make charred) half two, rhubarb 22 , Black morning glory two or two. The tops are fine, and each serving is three dollars, and it is adjusted with hot wine, such as four or five miles on the bank, and then the hot wine is used to adjust the two dollars to promote it. The blood was getting worse. ("Jesang Fang" killed life)

Clinical application of locust therapy

Treatment of acute conjunctivitis

Use 3 live locusts and place them in 6 ml of raw honey. After 6 hours, take the infusion solution bottle for later use. Eye drops 1 to 2 drops each time. Treatment of 380 cases, most of them were bilateral conjunctivitis, all cured. The shortest cure time is 1 day and the longest is 5 days. Except for a little pain in 1 to 2 minutes after eye drops during treatment, no adverse reactions were seen. It also has a certain effect on chronic conjunctivitis and pterygium.

Treatment of corneal keloids

The living water urn is placed in clean water for 2 to 3 days. After removing the dirt from the body and spit out the dirt in the abdomen, it is taken out. After weighing the weight, it is put into pure honey. The ratio of honey to leech is 1: 2.5 or 1: 3. The leech died about 1 hour after coming into contact with honey, appeared turbid liquid, and then sank after floating. It took a total of 6 to 8 hours. After filtering, a brown transparent liquid was obtained. Place it at 0 ° C for 3 to 5 days, and it can be used as topical eye drops, 3 to 4 times a day, 1 to 2 drops each time. Or it can be made into injection, and injected under 1% procaine anesthesia for subbulbar conjunctiva, first with a small amount, and then gradually increase, generally 0.3 ~ 0.5 ml, once every other day, and then apply antibiotic ophthalmic bandage after injection Half a day. A total of 71 cases of corneal scar clouding and adhesion corneal keloids were treated, with significant effect (clear keloid thinning and shrinking, improved vision) in 26 cases, improvement (increased keloid thinning and shrinking, slightly improved vision) 39 cases, 6 cases ineffective; There were 124 cases of cataracts, 65 cases of marked improvement (more than 5 times vision improvement), 51 cases of improvement (more than 3 times vision improvement), 8 cases of ineffectiveness; 37 cases of vitreous opacities, 26 cases of marked improvement (more than 5 times vision improvement), improved (vision Increase by more than 3 times) 9 cases, 2 cases were ineffective. It has been observed that hirudin is safe to use and has few side effects. There were more than 5,000 subconjunctival injections, and only 2 cases were accidental: 1 case of original glaucoma, which caused an increase in intraocular pressure after injection; 1 case of hypertension (blood pressure 210/110 mm Hg), and the vision suddenly dropped after injection. Topical eye drops have a good effect on simple corneal keloids, and the general course of treatment takes more than 2 months; while for adhesive corneal keloids, the effect is poor.