Akritech Sdn Bhd & Akritech Pte Ltd – Agriculture Company
Before export leeches to foreign country, some official export certification and approval letter issued from Department Of Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculature Malaysia was required.
Leeches can be used in many applications especially for medical and cosmetic purpose. Traditional use of leeches is by letting the leech to suck blood of the patient’s body to relief symptoms like headache and join pain. Leech oil is known to the local community for enhancing the sex capability of man. In India, it is used for preventing hair loss. Chinese medicine use leech as and ingredient for various treatments. Modern medicine uses the ingredient extracted from leech to cure blood related diseases.
Leeches are commonly known as a kind of animals that suck blood, and there is fresh water, terrestrial and marine leeches. Scientifically it is categorized as annelids, which is segmented worms comprising the subclass Hirudinea. It is closely related to earthworms, and it is hermaphrodites that have both male and female reproductive organs.
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- ·陳漢君：水蛭養殖具有經濟潛質。
- ·喂食後的水蛭放在手臂上，並不吸血。
- ·一雙水蛭成蟲的長度可達約17公分。
- ·只有一個月大的水蛭，長度約3公分。
- ·稻谷是餵食水蛭的食物之一。
- ·只需營造適合的生長環境，水蛭養殖的工作並不困難。
- ·水蛭產卵是透明色的，每一次產卵可繁殖約35隻幼蟲。
- ·每星期以活生生的鱔魚餵食，水蛭可長得肥肥壯壯。
- ·當鱔魚一放入養殖池中，數十雙水蛭一擁而至地往鱔魚身上吸血。
- ·經過一番掙扎後，鱔魚因被吸食血液過多而死亡，其他水蛭繼續涌往進食。