This isn't really news, except to those who limit their knowledge to the narrow band of treatment known as Western medicine. Leeches have been used as healing therapy for thousands of years and continue to be used around the world. It's only the Western doctors who are coming to recognize their usefulness again.
Their healing properties, by the way, has nothing to do with leeches themselves. Rather, it's all about
stagnation and the simple fact that leeches get blood moving again. The same can be accomplished with a vacuum pump, or with acupuncture, or massage, or moxibustion, or phototherapy with infrared lights.
You get the picture. Move the blood and healing accelerates. You can use leeches, needles, or light. You can even use hot and cold water (hydrotherapy). But use something. Because in the human body, things that don't move tend to become diseased.
About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health author and award-winning journalist with a strong interest in personal health, the environment and the power of nature to help us all heal He has authored more than 1,800 articles and dozens of reports, guides and interviews on natural health topics, and he has published numerous courses on preparedness and survival, including financial preparedness, emergency food supplies, urban survival and tactical self-defense. Adams is an honest, independent journalist and accepts no money or commissions on the third-party products he writes about or the companies he promotes. In mid 2010, Adams produced TV.NaturalNews.com, a natural health video sharing website offering user-generated videos on nutrition, green living, fitness and more. He also founded an environmentally-friendly online retailer called BetterLifeGoods.com that uses retail profits to help support consumer advocacy programs. He's also a veteran of the software technology industry, having founded a personalized mass email software product used to deliver email newsletters to subscribers. Adams also serves as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a non-profit consumer protection group, and pursues hobbies such as martial arts, Capoeira, nature macrophotography and organic gardening. He's also author a large number of health books offered by Truth Publishing and is the creator of numerous reference website including NaturalPedia.com and the free downloadable Honest Food Guide. His websites also include the free reference sites HerbReference.com and HealingFoodReference.com. Adams believes in free speech, free access to nutritional supplements and the innate healing ability of the human body. Known as the 'Health Ranger,' Adams' personal health statistics and mission statements are located at www.HealthRanger.org
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