“Hot water soak feet, add some Chinese medicine” is one of the health care methods of traditional Chinese medicine. Medical texts record: “people have feet, like trees have roots, trees withered roots first exhausted, people old feet first decline.” As early as several thousand years ago, Chinese medicine attaches great importance to the exercise and maintenance of the feet, and the use of foot massage (foot therapy) to prevent and treat diseases. History, celebrity foot bath health care stories also emerge: Yang Guifei foot bath beauty; Su Dongpo foot bath every night to strengthen the body; Zeng Guofan view “reading”, “early” and “foot bath health care “as the three best things in his life. Chinese medicine health care theory on the “four seasons of the year foot bath: spring foot bath, you can dredge the liver to raise Yang; summer foot bath, you can fix the heart; autumn foot bath, you can moisten the lungs and spleen; winter foot bath, you can warm the kidneys and cultivate the yuan. The record is an image summary of the function of Chinese medicine foot therapy. Modern scientific research shows that there are reflex zones (acupuncture points) on the human feet corresponding to the organs of the internal organs, and stimulating these reflex zones can promote blood circulation, regulate the endocrine system, enhance the functions of human organs, and achieve the self-care effect of disease prevention and treatment. Foot soak can relieve headaches. There is an old saying: “Chinese medicine foot bath, better than taking tonic”, now also popular saying: “rich people take medicine, poor people wash their feet”. If you soak your feet for 15 minutes a day can play a health-care role, such as dipping your feet into the hot water at about 40 degrees Celsius, about 15 to 20 minutes after the headache will be significantly relieved. This is because the feet vascular expansion, blood flow from the head to the feet, can relatively reduce brain congestion, thus relieving headache. For the headache caused by cold and fever, hot water soaking feet also helps to reduce fever. If the foot soak at the same time can constantly massage the Yongquan point and press the back of the big toe on the outside of the back of the foot Taichong point, but also help to reduce blood pressure; rub the foot Sanli point, Sanyinjiao point can prevent spleen and stomach disease. Adherence to Chinese medicine foot soak has a wide range of applications, such as rheumatism, spleen and stomach diseases, insomnia, headaches, colds and other systemic diseases, all of which can be relieved by foot soak. Even paraplegia, traumatic brain injury, stroke, lumbar disc herniation, kidney disease, diabetes and other major diseases, rehabilitation treatment after serious illness, as well as constipation, weight loss, beauty, etc. can use foot soak to assist in the treatment. Soak until sweating is appropriate. Then how is considered a good foot soak? Soak until your back feels a little damp, or forehead sweat, even if it is good. Note, do not sweat a lot. Because sweat for the heart of the liquid, sweating too much will be sad, as long as a slight sweat can be. Soak feet should be a deeper barrel, to be able to put the whole calf into the kind of. One is easy to keep warm, the second is natural. Liver main wood, kidney main water, so a bubble, can help liver and kidney detoxification. Soak feet through the detoxification. Sun Simiao told us that the foot has three yin: liver, spleen and kidneys; three yang: stomach, gallbladder and bladder, are full of blood meridians, the most need to be unblocked every day. The liver collects blood, the liver meridian does not work, the heart blood supply will be insufficient; the spleen is the main transport, the spleen meridian does not work will not be able to eat, qi and blood will not be produced; the kidney collects vital energy, the nerve does not work, the vital energy is weak. Stomach, gallbladder, bladder is the internal organs, the main detoxification, the meridian does not work, the five organs will be poisoned. Soak feet can not only through the meridians to detoxify, but also to nourish the Yang Qi to replenish the internal organs. People who can take care of their health will definitely take care of their feet. Foot soak benefits, but not everyone suitable, such as too full too hungry when not suitable for foot soak. Severe heart disease, low blood pressure patients beware of fainting. Diabetic patients must pay attention to the water temperature. Foot fungus patients should be careful of infection. People suffering from foot odor, the condition is so serious that when blistering, it is not advisable to use hot water to soak feet, easy to cause wound infection. Foot inflammation, skin disease, trauma or skin burns are also not suitable for foot soaking. The elderly foot soak should not be long, daily before bedtime soak 20 minutes is better.