FIELD: medicine, hirudotherapy.
SUBSTANCE: the present innovation deals with detecting the usefulness and safety of medicinal leeches to be applied for curative purposes. The suggested method for detecting the quality of medicinal leeches deals with weighing a leech, extracting leech's digesta to carry out repeated weighing. One should determine the quality criterion of a leech (C) being equal to the value of the ratio of leech body weight obtained before and after extracting its digesta. At this value being C≥1.327+0.338 Ln (W), where W - leech's body weight, one should establish the terms for leech's starvation being equal to 3 mo, or longer to state upon leech's quality. For detecting the origin of medicinal leech one should form an experimental batch. At homogeneity of quality criterion being in more than 20% of batch s and at the absence of ones at starvation terms being above 6 mo it is possible to state upon the belonging of such leeches to medicinal means named "Medicinal leech". The innovation in question enables to objectively detect leech's starvation terms and excludes the chance for certifying a "wild" leech as "Medicinal means".
EFFECT: higher accuracy and efficiency of detection.
4 cl, 2 dwg, 3 ex, 2 tbl
