At first it seemed weird, but after thinking about it is possible that removing stagnant/ pooled blood may help free nerves and/or maybe the eel's anticoagulant helps repair nerves.

After standing or walking my CRPS foot has big fat veins sticking up. It also is swollen, my ankle has a permanent round lump on the ankle.

The only thing that has helped me get swelling down in my CRPS limb is the Bowen Technique washing soda compresses.

I would do the leeches in a heartbeat, only because I cannot see a downside and I am willing to try anything at this point, because the pain is destroying me.

In 2006 when my father had horrible bedsores I asked about "maggot therapy," the response I got from the wound nurses was nasty. When I next asked if I could try packing the wounds with sugar, they went nuts. Their gauze/ ointment therapy was tortuously cruel and it made the wounds worse. I think maggots and sugar are being used now, along with patches made of silicone.