The practice, rooted in ancient medicinal traditions, involves using live leeches to extract "impure" blood from the body.

As the people of Kashmir celebrate Navroz, the ancient tradition of leech therapy, locally known as Drekah, is experiencing a ...

The leech multiplies its body mass by six or seven times and will now not need to feed for several months. The surgeon describes how leeches are used to release excess blood from parts of human ...

Hirudotherapy is a treatment method using leeches, that has been known for hundreds of years. SBS Russian spoke to a Melbourne naturopath, Inna Mitelman, about how widely this method is known in ...