4. Nasya therapy - Instilling powders or Ayurvedic liquids through the nose is called Nasya treatment. It is used for ...

At the same time as their population declined so did their medical use in Britain, fading away in the early 20th century due to cost, rarity and changing medical treatments. Leeches made a medical ...

By the 1800s, leeches were being used as a cure-all for everything from cancer to mental illness. “While most of these daft treatments were discredited in the early 20th Century, modern ...

Medicinal leech saliva contains blood-thinning properties and was vital in the first positive results of human dialysis treatments.