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Ricarimpex Sangsues médicinales

Our farming in situ : two unique locations in France

Our laboratory farming

When nature serves health

About

RICARIMPEX, whose origins date back to 1845, is the only French company to specialise in the breeding and marketing of medicinal leeches (Hirudo medicinalis).

ISO 9001-certified (version 2008), RICARIMPEX, which is based in the Gironde region of Western France, is also the only company to have been given accreditation by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to sell medicinal leeches as a medical device in the United States.

Hirudo Medicalis Leech

Among the 650 species of listed leeches, Hirudo medicinalis is one of the best studied specimens. We only use this annelid.

At home ?

YES, for people who know how to use them and who do not have any contraindication. RICARIMPEX does not provide any document regarding the pose.

General Medicine

YES, for degenerative osteoarthritis, tendinitis, varicose veins, localised muscular pain, haemorrhoids, oedemas, haematoma…

In Surgery, yes !

Organ replantation (finger, toe, ear, etc.) / Skin graft : in a study led in Great-Britain, 1/3 of the maxillofacial surgeons who have been interrogated use medicinal leeches.