Demi Moore uses leeches to detox (video)

by Martha Edwards (Subscribe to Martha Edwards's posts)
Apr 12th 2008 1:49PM

Categories: Fitness, Celebs & Entertainment

Could you ever imagine purposefully letting leeches suck on your blood? Yeah, me neither. But Demi Moore does, as a way to detox, according to this interview she had with Letterman a couple of weeks back. According to Demi, "I was in Austria doing a cleanse and part of the treatment was leech therapy. These aren't just swamp leeches though - we are talking about highly trained medical leeches." And does she feel better after the cleanse? She answers with a resounding yes, though she admits she didn't feel very good immediately following the procedure.

Using leeches for medical reasons was considered a legitimate, trustworthy cure ... in medieval times. But back then, redheads and people with freckles were thought to be witches too. So why revert back to that ancient way of thinking? I can't see any way this could possibly be healthy. Can you?

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marcie0305 4-13-2008 @ 12:43PM

Sounds gross, but "biotherapy" is something I have heard of before used in hospitals and is very effective.

"Biotherapy has got to be an integral part of modern wound care," Church said. "No way is this an alternative. There are no gimmicks. It's a highly sophisticated natural means of achieving certain ends. Nature's been doing research and development on this for 300 million years. All we've got to do is cash in on that fact."

From:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/10/1024_031024_maggotmedicine.html

I personally think we spend too much time looking for "cures" when mother nature almost always has one there for us, anyway.

~Marcie
http://feedingblackmail.blogspot.com/

Martha Edwards 4-13-2008 @ 12:47PM

Thanks for the link! I was trying to find info on leeches but to no avail ...
Interesting indeed.

marcie0305 4-13-2008 @ 9:08PM

Hi Martha! Do a search for "medical leeches" - I saw something about it on Discovery Health awhile back, I think - and apparently Demi seems to have watched the same program :) Can't find a link to that, though. Good luck!

~Marcie
http://feedingblackmail.blogspot.com/

verolynne 4-23-2008 @ 3:41PM

Leeches are still used in modern medicine. They can be used to help enable circulation to wounded extremities and can help thin the blood. I believe they do this in an episode of Grey's Anatomy to help save a guy's fingers rather than necessitating amputation.