Title: Special Session: The Renaissance of hirudotherapy in the Russia: The end of XX and the beginning XXI century

Biography:

Krashenyuk Albert Ivanovich is the Head of laboratory of biochemistry and biophysics; Leningrad scientific research institute of epidemiology and microbiology named after Pasteur from1974-1995. He has completed PhD in biotechnology in 1995. He is the author of 218 publications on the themes: biophysics, biochemistry, virology, biotechnology, gas-discharge visualization (effect of Kirlian); He is the author of 25 inventions. He is one of participants and organizers of new scientific direction -space biotechnology in the USSR.

Abstract

Leech therapy is one of the leading methods of the oldest known ancient system of medical knowledge – Ayurveda. In the last decades there’s been quite a renaissance of leech therapy, not only in Russia but also in other parts of the world. The reason for it lies in a scientific approach to leech therapy. The first Russian and the world department of hirudotherapy and natural methods of treatment was established in 1966 at the Academy of Medical and Social Management (AMSU) in St.- Petersburg. That set the milestone for the basic research that were made later and which also allowed us to fully understand the mechanisms of leech impact on human body. In more than two decades of work with prominent Russian scientists, some fundamental researches in the field of leech therapy have been collected under the roof of the Academy of  Hirudotherapy, Sankt-Petersburg. 1992–The discovery of the phenomenon“Hirudobiopsy”(A.I.Krashenyuk,S.V.Krashenyuk);1993-The discovery of the energy effect (information-entropy)   (A.I.Krashenyuk,S.V.Krashenyuk); 1996 – The discovery of neuro-stimulating effect of medical leeches (A.I. Krashenyuk, S.V.Krashenyuk, N.I. Chalisova); 2001 - The discovery of the acoustic effect of leech therapy. (A. I. Krashenyuk, D. I. Frolov); 2003 - The discovery of the detoxication effect of leech therapy. (A. I.Krashenyuk); 2004 – The discovery of the phenomenon of local hyperthermia in the body benign brain tumour – neurinoma (Kamynin Yu.F.,     Krashenyuk A.I.); 2004 – The discovery of the phenomenon of polymorphic resonance in neurotransmitter system of the brain with leech therapy (Kamy-nin Yu.F., Krashenyuk A.I.);              2005 - The discovery of a negentropic effect of leech therapy. (A.I.Krashenyuk, G.N.Dulnev); 2007 – The role of Autohemohirudotherapy in the formation of  immuno- modulatory effect of hirudotherapy was demonstrated (A. I. Krashenyuk, S. V. Krashenyuk, Krylov A.A.); 2010 - The discovery of the aqua structural effect of hirudotherapy. (Semihina L.P., Krashenyuk A.I.); 2016 – The discovery of the resonance effect in SVCh - KVCh ranges in leech therapy (Vlaskin S.V., Dubovitsky S.A., Krashenyuk A.I.,   Petrosyan V.I.); 2016 – The experimental confirmation of the theory of homotoxicology and anti-homotoxic therapy of H.-H.Rekkeveg of the existence of  the humoral and cellular phase of the disease (Krashenyuk A.I.,   Krashenyuk S.V.). All the scientific research having been made, we can asset that hirudotherapy has the most effective influence on homeostasis among other healing methods. Any other method with such a wide range of effectiveness in modern medicine is yet unknown. There is no doubt that leech is most advanced nanotechnology tool currently known to humankind.