Sanguisuga.
By John Henry Clarke тАФ A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
Hirudo or Sanguisuga officinalis. The Leech. N. O. Hirudine├ж. Tincture of the living animal.
Clinical
Anus, bleeding from / H├жmorrhages
Characteristics
Burnett was the first to use Sanguisuga as a hom┼Уopathic medicine. Dangerous h├жmorrhages have not unfrequently followed the application of leeches, and it has been ascertained that the leech does not merely bite, it poisons the bitten part in such a way as to render the blood in it watery. Having a case of persistent bleeding from the rectum, the blood being watery, and all the usual h├жmorrhagic remedies having failed to arrest it, Burnett thought that Sanguisuga might prove the simillimum. He had a tincture made and attenuated, gave the 5th attenuation, and made a brilliant cure. I have had frequent opportunity of confirming the value of Sngs. in cases of the kind.