FIELD: medicine, hirudotherapy. SUBSTANCE: the present innovation deals with applying leeches onto tongue. Before this, massage should be carried out by performing pressing genioglossus muscles with hyoid glands, cheek, palatoglossus and palatopharyngeal muscles, superior and middle pharyngeal constrictors. One should perform postisometric relaxation of tongue's muscles followed by pressing hyoid arteries, veins, glossus nerve, glossus branches of glossopharyngeal and vagus nerves. Outside mouth cavity due to pressing followed by postisometric relaxation of masseter muscles one should fulfill pressing of main trunk of glossus artery in Pirogov's triangle and, also, in parotid submaxillary glands with their ducts. When massage is over, one should apply leeches onto tongue's tip, onto area of papillae foliatae, onto superior and inferior surface of tongue and area of hyoid vessels. This enables to remove completely the symptoms characteristic for glossalgia, shorten terms of leeches' application and therapy. EFFECT: higher efficiency of therapy. 2 ex
