Foot soaking has a good effect on patients with cerebral infarction. Patients with cerebral infarction often suffer from insomnia, excessive dreaming and early awakening, and foot soaking can improve sleep and reduce excessive dreaming, which can be used as an adjunctive treatment to medication. Foot soaking has the effect of activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, which can accelerate blood circulation in the brain, remove impurities in the cerebral vessels and promote recovery of nerve function. Foot soak is best chosen at night before bedtime, you can use salt water or ginger water foot soak better. Attention should be paid to the water temperature, especially for patients with cerebral infarction combined with diabetes mellitus should pay more attention to the water temperature should not be too high. Because of the presence of peripheral neuropathy in such patients the perception of temperature is reduced, easy to burn the skin. Because of the poor vascular elasticity of cerebral infarction patients, foot soaking in fasting and starvation can easily lead to reduced cerebral blood flow and dizziness symptoms, which should be avoided.