with the greatest effects registered 24 hours after treatment. The patients described the initial leech bite as slightly painful, but reported no other discomfort. Those treated conventionally ...

The morbidity associated with a leech bite is mainly due to 2 factors -- mechanical obstruction of a vital organ and/or severe bleeding, as in our cases. Vaginal bleeding due to a leech bite is rare.

The discrediting of general "bleeding" as a treatment for everything ... off as the more effective medicinal leech. H decora, which was imported, does not bite as deep and so was less effective ...