As a matter of fact, China's ancient health care practitioners attached great importance to washing feet, especially before going to bed, and even left many poems for this purpose.
Su Dongpo once talked about the benefits of washing feet before going to bed in his poem: my master advised me to wash my feet and sleep peacefully, but I fell down on the bed and stopped smelling the bells and drums.
Lu You lived to be 85 years old in turbulent times, and one of his health secrets was to wash his feet with hot water before going to bed. At the age of 82, he once said to his family around him: "In spring, you wash your feet and the sun rises; Wash your feet in summer, and the heat can be removed; Wash feet in autumn, moisten lungs and intestines; Wash your feet in winter, and Dantian is warm. " Lu You has a deep understanding of the benefits of foot washing. He also wrote a well-known poem on foot washing: The old man no longer works as a farmer, but counts chickens and dolphins. It's really fast to wash your feet and go to bed, and your little grandson will gradually get rid of the soup.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Yongquan point is the source of human vitality and is closely related to human health, so having feet is the "second heart" of human body. Modern reflexology has also found that the reflex zone of the foot is related to the tissues and organs of the whole body, so there is a saying that "washing feet before going to bed is not as good as tonic"