Not a leech from the wild. We would be using healthy, possible lab bred and sanitized leeches that have no potential for bacterial or viral infections. Wouldn’t it do the same work as draining it with a syringe? And unlike a syringe, wouldn’t it have more accuracy and reach without the possibility of stabbing the cyst in further and causing more complications?
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Don’t we sometimes still use maggots?
Have you found a way to breed ‘sterile leeches?
Why would you think a leech would feed on pus and other fluids like that? They feed on blood.
Plus it wouldn’t work on a cyst even if they did like to drink that fluid. A cyst will come back unless it is cut out in its entirety.
Leeching feeding off blood. The contents of cysts and boils isn’t blood so they wouldn’t do anything with it. It’s quite possible they wouldn’t even be able to reach a cyst under the skin.
Leeches are used medicinally now a days. They are breed in lab conditions so they are safe to use. They get used mainly in reconstructive surgery or when skin grafts or similar involved. If there is venous congestion (blood not flowing out of the graft or flap quite fast enough) leeches are applied to remove some blood to protect the graft while the issue resolved with healing
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