Leech therapy bearing fruit in Tanahun

Kathmandu - Leech therapy is becoming effective in Tanahun, it has been found. Under the therapy, leeches are used to treat many illness and diseases through bloodletting, a method wherein human blood is drawn out by letting leeches suck it. Leeches produce saliva that is believed to cure or prevent diseases. Their saliva has over 100 bioactive substances which are very beneficial for human health. Diseases like varicose veins, hypertension, skin problems and arthritis among others are said to be cured through leech therapy.

In the district, the district Ayurveda Health Centre has been providing the therapy. Treatment of various diseases through the therapy has been successful, claimed Dr Ram Prabodh Mandal, chief of the Centre. Omkar Acharya, Chairperson of the Federation of Nepali Journalists, Tanahun claimed that he got his skin disease cured through the therapy. "I went through three sessions of the therapy.

My skin disease has been cured now," he maintained. Credit to start the therapy goes to Dr Mandal. He began the therapy after bringing five medicinal leeches from India which he bought for Rs 3,000 each. The therapy is widely used in foreign countries, he said, claiming that there has been less change of recur a disease once treated through the therapy. He however said that there have been difficulties to save medicinal leeches from dying as water in the district is more salty due to which leeches die.