Leeches are used as a decoction, or powdered into pills or powders. The basic effects of leeches are to break blood circulation and clear the meridians (to break blood stasis and clear the meridians), and to expel blood stasis and eliminate symptoms (to get rid of blood stasis and lumps in the body).
Leeches were first published in the Divine Husbandman’s Classic of the Materia Medica. It is flat in nature, salty and bitter in taste, with a small poison, and mainly enters the liver meridian, with the efficacy of expelling evil blood stasis and breaking up accumulation, applicable to the accumulation of impediments and obstruction of menstruation with blood stagnation, and can be used in conjunction with rhubarb and peach kernel. It can be used with rhubarb and peach kernel. It is also used with frankincense in the treatment of bruises, injuries and fractures, and pain from stasis.
Leech has the effect of breaking blood stasis and activating channels and collaterals, and is suitable for the treatment of hemiplegia, hemiplegia or hemiplegia with numbness, crooked mouth and tongue, etc. It can be used together with ginseng and whole scorpion.
The adverse reaction of this product is not clear, pregnant women and menstruation are contraindicated. The drug must be used under the guidance of a doctor, not blindly.