NEW YORK, March 12, 2009
Leeches: Beauty Treatment Or Pain Reducer?
Actress Demi Moore Swears By The Treatment, But Experts Say It's Meant For Medical Reasons
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Play CBS Video Video Demi Moore Leech Therapy? CBS News' Michelle Miller looks at fact vs. fiction on bloodletting's approved medical uses. Arya Nielsen, an integrative medicinal practitioner, talks about leeches with Maggie Rodriguez.
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Photo Essay Demi And Ashton September bride, May groom. These longtime lovers finally took the plunge.
As part of The Early Show's "Extreme Beauty" series -- we wanted to take a look at this beauty therapy, which is definitely on the extreme side.
As CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller reports,
some view leech therapy as a "detox method."
Actress Demi Moore dished to David Letterman about doing a "cleanse" while she was in Austria, in which part of the treatment was leech therapy.
"Really? Leech. Actual -- leeches? Like the blood-sucking ..." Letterman asked.
"Yes. Blood. I'm feeling very detoxified right now," Moore said.
But is Moore's claim of leech therapy really one of the reasons she looks so good at 46?
Or is the treatment really meant to be used primarily for osteoarthritis of the joints?
Miller went to the experts at The Continuum Center for Health and Healing, where they perform leech therapy, to find out if what Moore claimed is true -- and to see how leeches are actually used.
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