Leeches are also known as leeches, modern Chinese medicine canon that leeches have: break the blood through the menstruation, eliminating the accumulation of blood stasis, swelling and detoxification and abortion and other effects. In our country's ancient book "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" has been recorded, has a high medicinal value, by drying all the medicine, containing hirudin and protein, has the effect of activating the blood, dispersal of blood stasis, menstruation. In the clinic is used for amenorrhea, blood stasis abdominal pain, bruises, blood stasis for pain and other diseases using leeches can be treated cardiovascular, cerebral thrombosis, rheumatism, hypertension, myocardial infarction, rheumatoid arthritis, stroke, amenorrhea, abdominal pain, postpartum menstrual discharge, paraplegia, cirrhosis of the liver, lymphatic nodes, angina pectoris, eye disease, anonymous pain, tumors, cervical lymphatic node, and other diseases, and also can be used to abort the fetus.

Leeches are rich in protein and amino acids, with the basic conditions for the development of special food, its development prospects are very broad. It can be made into health food, such as health drinks, leech wine, health food, oral liquid, punch, capsules, tablets, etc. for the middle-aged and elderly people to prevent high blood lipids, high blood pressure, liver disease, cardiovascular and cerebral vascular disease and cerebral thrombosis and other symptoms. In addition, the use of leeches can also be prepared anti-freezing cream, spring-preserving cream, hair growth cream or other blood stasis ointment and a series of make-up and beauty products. Can not be taken for a long time, there is no blood stasis is best not to use, there is a blood-breaking effect