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The medicinal leech has become an endangered species on all over the world because of many reasons such as great changers in nature due to draining wetlands and unconscious collection has done. On the other hand, the medicinal leeches, Hirudo Medicinalis and Hirudo Verbana which are known to suck human blood for the several benefits that they provide to human beings have been used with an increasing amounth of demand in modern medicine and cosmetics during last few decedes.
These two main realities caused a great deficit between supply and demand balance of medicinal leeches. That's why the requirement for cultivating medicinal leeches at the breeding farms has occured as a solution. |