Kykeon
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Is there something about blood leeches to reduce iron in the blood that i am missing?
In history it was used, sheep and horses oftentimes go into lakes where they know alot of leeches live. It seems to be therapeutic. I am waiting for my leeches, i will report my findings in this thread, but it seems like a good way of bloodletting. Stood the test of time from what i can tell.
Did Peat ever comment on this topic? I have found nothing.
To me it looks like only the histamine in the salvia is problematic, but the leeches are used by naturopaths in rheumatroid arthritis so there seems to be a benefit with inflammation.
Leeches secrete more than 20 identified bioactive substances such as antistasin, eglins, guamerin, hirudin, saratin, bdellins, complement, and carboxypeptidase inhibitors.
So the Acetylcholine seems not too beneficial, aswell as Histamine like molecules.
Is this risky to try out? What do you think?
Could this maybe something like high altitude living, where the adaptive process is beneficial in the end? I would love to hear some opinions on this topic.
In history it was used, sheep and horses oftentimes go into lakes where they know alot of leeches live. It seems to be therapeutic. I am waiting for my leeches, i will report my findings in this thread, but it seems like a good way of bloodletting. Stood the test of time from what i can tell.
Did Peat ever comment on this topic? I have found nothing.
To me it looks like only the histamine in the salvia is problematic, but the leeches are used by naturopaths in rheumatroid arthritis so there seems to be a benefit with inflammation.
Medicinal leech therapy—an overall perspective
Complementary medicine methods have a long history, but modern medicine has just recently focused on their possible modes of action. Medicinal leech therapy (MLT) or hirudotherapy, an old technique, has been studied by many researchers for possible effects ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
(PDF) Steroids, histamine, and serotonin in the medicinal leech salivary gland secretion
PDF | Lipids represent 20% of the total weight of the dried pool of medicinal leech salivary gland secretion (SGS) obtained from about 50 individual... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Leeches secrete more than 20 identified bioactive substances such as antistasin, eglins, guamerin, hirudin, saratin, bdellins, complement, and carboxypeptidase inhibitors.
So the Acetylcholine seems not too beneficial, aswell as Histamine like molecules.
Is this risky to try out? What do you think?
Could this maybe something like high altitude living, where the adaptive process is beneficial in the end? I would love to hear some opinions on this topic.