Ancient fortune telling for leeches _ ancient fortune telling

What do leeches eat? Brief introduction of leech.

1, leeches are omnivorous animals, which mainly feed on animal blood or body fluids, and often feed on plankton, insects and mollusks in water. Wild leeches have a wide range of food habits, including benthic mollusks such as snails, mussels, shellfish and their larvae, fish, insects, Daphnia and other organisms, aquatic mycelium algae and nutrient-rich humus.

2. Leech, commonly known as leech, is recorded in Shennong Herbal Classic and has high medicinal value; It grows and breeds in inland freshwater areas and is a traditional special medicinal aquatic animal in China. Its dried product can be used as traditional Chinese medicine after soaking, and has the effects of treating apoplexy, hypertension, blood stasis, amenorrhea and traumatic injury. In recent years, leech preparation has been found to have special effects in preventing and treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and anticancer. Historically, it was mainly natural fishing. Due to the abuse of pesticides and fertilizers and the environmental pollution caused by industrial and agricultural "three wastes" in recent years, wild natural resources have been sharply reduced. With the further development of medicinal value of leech, its market demand potential is huge.

3. Leeches, also known as medical leeches, commonly known as leeches, are distributed all over the world, with more than 300 species, and there are more than 100 species in China. All the dried animals of leech, yellow-brown leech and Japanese leech were recognized as Chinese herbal medicines by People's Republic of China (PRC) Pharmacopoeia (China Pharmacopoeia for short).