Man is the longest-lived "animal" among mammals. In the long historical process of human evolution, it is precisely because of his upright feet that he promoted the development of the brain and prolonged his life according to the theory of "foot-brain-tool". Foot is the key to human evolution and an important factor to get rid of the low-level situation and become the spirit of all things.
Man is a part of nature. People's birth, aging, illness and death are natural laws. With the improvement of people's material and spiritual living standards, people hope that they can live a long and healthy life. This is a big topic that modern people actively pursue and constantly explore. People can't live forever and can't resist the natural law of death. However, it is not a dream to prolong life and delay aging in order to enjoy the natural life of the world. It's not unattainable. The key lies in how to strengthen self-care under the current efficient and fast-paced lifestyle. Modern medical research has proved that there is a certain degree of reversibility in human life process, which is the scientific basis for health preservation, disease prevention and longevity. We should conform to the laws of nature, keep the balance between the internal and external environment of the body, and strive for health and longevity.
Hands and feet are important external organs of human body. The vitality of the body depends largely on the strength of the functions of the hands and feet. Generally speaking, flexible hands and feet indicate that the limbs are developed and the human body is full of vitality. Weakness of hands and feet indicates weakness or aging of human body.
Feet are an important part of human body. Foot is the lowest part of human body, which consists of 52 bones, 66 joints, 40 muscles and many ligaments. These anatomical features make the feet strong and flexible, so as to bear all the weight of the body harmoniously, which is closely related to health. As early as 1400 years ago, Sun Simiao, an ancient physician in China, put forward the scientific opinion of "warming feet". It is bound to affect the internal organs and cause stomach pain, low back pain, irregular menstruation and other diseases. According to ancient medical books in China, a person has four roots-ear root, nose root, breast root and foot root. Foot is one of the four, and foot is the root of essence. As the saying goes, "people get old first, and the roots of death are exhausted first." If the human body is compared to a tree, then the foot is its root, and the root is inexhaustible.
The health care function of foot is because foot disease is not only related to the local health of human body, but also related to the health of the whole human body. Su Dongpo, a writer and poet in the Song Dynasty, is still bright-eyed after his sixties. Among them, the mystery said: "Dongpo rubbed his feet, not with Guanyin. That's just to clear his eyes, and things are clear and turbid. " "There are Yongquan points on the soles of your feet. Kneading them one hundred times in the morning and evening can lead to virtual fire, reduce turbid qi and soothe the liver. Living is a sign of health and longevity. " "Miscellaneous Notes" pointed out: "Feet are the bottom of people, and they should be washed once a night. "There is a song in China that says:" When you wash your feet in spring, the sun rises and disappears; Wash your feet in summer, except for summer dampness, wash your feet in autumn, moisten your lungs and intestines; It is warm to wash your feet in winter. "There is also a folk legend that there was a governor in the Qing Dynasty and a secret recipe for health care in his later years." 300 steps in the morning, a pot of soup before bed. "It can be seen that since ancient times, people often take foot washing as an effective health care measure. Washing feet with hot water can stimulate the reflex zone of the foot to support the internal organs, promote the circulation of qi and blood, and adjust the balance of yin and yang, thus achieving the purpose of getting rid of diseases and strengthening the body. Modern medicine believes that lymphatic vessels and nerve endings are closely related to human internal organs and brain tissues. Washing feet with hot water can promote telangiectasia, improve circulatory function, smooth blood flow and vigorous metabolism of feet, which is beneficial to human recovery from fatigue, heart, kidney, brain and other tissues and organs, and proves the importance of feet to human health and even life.
In order to live a long and healthy life, our ancestors accumulated a wealth of foot health care methods.
(1), it is more appropriate to move frequently.
In the second volume, Tai Su, a classic work of traditional Chinese medicine, told us that "get up early, stride in court and walk slowly", which means: getting up early, don't sleep late, let your hair loose, relax your belt and take a leisurely walk in the courtyard, which is helpful to your health. China folk proverb "Take a walk after a meal, and live to ninety-nine" vividly illustrates that walking can improve human health.
(2) Always rub your feet.
All previous generations of health care experts believed that "the foot and heart should be rubbed frequently." The so-called rubbing the heart of the foot mainly refers to the Yongquan point of the kidney meridian of the foot shaoyang in the heart of the foot. "Eight Methods of Treating Diseases and Essentials of Aging" points out: "Sit flat, hold your toes with one hand, wipe red meat with the other hand, and take heat as the degree ... This Yongquan point can dehumidify and solidify qi." The specific method is as follows. Nourishing kidney water, reducing deficiency fire, communicating heart and kidney, calming the heart and calming the nerves, soothing the liver and improving eyesight can prevent and treat hypertension, dizziness, tinnitus, insomnia, sore throat, soft feet, numbness and edema, and acute pain of lower limbs.
(3) Keep warm enough.
"A cold starts with the feet" is a long-standing folk health-preserving proverb in China. Therefore, it is very important to keep your feet warm. According to Lao Lao Heng Yanwa in Neijing, "Yin pulse gathers in the foot and gathers in the heart of the foot. It is said that all three meridians start from the feet, so your feet should always be warm. " The foot is gathered by the yin meridian, and Yin Qi always wins. Less blood supply, slow blood flow and thin surface fat. The soles of the feet lack sebaceous glands, and there is no sebaceous gland to secrete sebum, so the warm-keeping function is poor. Moreover, they have close nerve connection with the upper respiratory tract, especially the nasal mucosa, so cold feet will reflexively weaken the resistance of the respiratory tract. Someone has done an experiment: soak your feet with 4~C cold water, and your nose will run runny after 3 minutes. In daily life, some people only pay attention to the upper body.
To sum up, we realize that human feet are closely related to various tissues and organs in the body, and feet can really affect human health. In the long-term clinical practice and life practice in China, many practical, effective and simple foot health care methods have been explored and summarized, which have shown unique effects in promoting health, delaying aging, self-care and preventing and treating diseases. In a word, feet are the cornerstone of health.
2. Foot reflexotherapy popular all over the world.
Foot massage is gradually recognized and summarized by people in the practice of long-term struggle against diseases. It has gone through a long development process and gradually improved. It has a long history, and there are many records about massage therapy in the earliest extant classic of traditional Chinese medicine, Huangdi Neijing Su Wen. For example, it is recorded in the theory of guiding the law that "the central person is flat and wet ... so his illness is soft, cold and hot, so we should guide his treatment." Press, that is, press the body; Jumping is raising your hands and feet. Another example is: "In ancient times, there was a doctor called Yu Zhi, who used to treat diseases without soup, sprinkling, throwing stones, inducing, pressing and pressing poison. "For example, Mawangdui in Changsha in recent years.
Foot massage accompanied by massage, after finishing and supplementing by doctors, has formed a treatment method. However, due to various objective reasons, foot massage has not been passed down from generation to generation and carried forward. On the contrary, this ancient therapy was discovered and used by foreign doctors. After entering this century, Dr. William Fitzgerald of the United States laid a theoretical foundation for the current foot massage therapy with reflex zone therapy (regional therapy). After repeated research and verification by Ms. Maruko, Germany, the "foot reflex therapy" was determined, which caused a sensation in the western medical community and attracted great attention from the medical community. In the early 1980s, the "Father Wu Ruoshi's Pathological Massage Method" which was popular in Asia was popularized one after another. After many twists and turns, I finally made this physical therapy without needles, drugs and any side effects. It is known by more and more people that 1982 established the "International Ruoshi Health Law Research Society" in Taipei, China. Its member countries are all over dozens of countries and regions in the world, and foot massage is very popular in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Europe and America. Since China's reform and opening up, this therapy has returned to the mainland through various channels, and has been popularized one after another, which has been verified in clinical application and achieved gratifying results. 46860.6868686866 1
Massage therapy of foot reflex zone is one of the unique treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine and a precious heritage of traditional Chinese medicine. It uses different methods to stimulate the reflex zone of human feet (the anatomical parts of human tissues and organs corresponding to the feet) to produce nerve reflex effect, so as to adjust the balance of the internal environment of the body and give full play to the potential power of various tissues and organs of the body, so as to adjust the physiological functions of various tissues and organs of the body and accelerate blood circulation. It can be said that it is a natural therapy to promote endocrine function, strengthen human metabolism and achieve the purpose of treatment and health care. Because it is easy to learn, not limited by time, place and conditions, it is suitable for people at all levels to learn and master, and has good curative effect on some systemic diseases, quick effect and unexpected effect on patients, so it is deeply welcomed by people.
This novel physical therapy can not only be used by medical staff to diagnose and treat diseases, but also be used by patients for self-massage and self-treatment. Clinical practice at home and abroad tells people that this therapy is effective in treating some common diseases, frequently-occurring diseases and difficult diseases, showing its unique advantages.
Yan Dexin, a famous old Chinese doctor and professor of Shanghai Railway Medical College, presided over a scientific research institute. On the basis of Chinese medical theory and decades of clinical practice, he put forward a new theory that the main mechanism of human aging lies in qi and blood imbalance, qi deficiency and blood stasis, and internal environment imbalance. He believes that the process of human growth, development, prosperity and aging is the process of qi and blood from strong to weak, from prosperity to decline, from balance to imbalance. When people enter middle-aged and elderly people, qi, yin and blood gradually fail. Qi deficiency can not promote blood circulation, and slow blood circulation will inevitably lead to blood stasis. Once qi deficiency and blood stasis, qi and blood imbalance, the internal environment balance is destroyed, the internal organs are not properly supported, and the functions of zang-fu organs can not be played normally, resulting in a series of pathological changes such as dysfunction of nerves, endocrine, immunity, metabolism and zang-fu, weakness of zang-fu, biochemical deficiency of qi and blood, loss of essence and spirit, and the aging of the body and function is becoming increasingly obvious. Therefore, Professor Yan believes that.
Massage therapy of foot reflex zone is to adjust and maintain the internal balance of human body, improve microcirculation, improve the blood supply of viscera and organs and the immune function of the body, strengthen the metabolism of tissues and organs, maintain and strengthen the reproductive and endocrine functions, and improve the stress ability, anti-fatigue ability and cold tolerance of the body, so as to adapt to the psychological trend that people generally pursue treatment, prevention and health care without taking medicine or injection.
After the popularization and clinical practice in China in recent years, people generally realize the advantages of this therapy. As pointed out in1February 24th, 990, the document of "China Foot Reflex Area Hygiene Law Research Association" officially approved by the Ministry of Health, "Foot Reflex Area Hygiene Law is a simple, effective and self-care disease prevention and treatment method, especially suitable for middle school students. Self-care of the elderly has a more realistic role. In order to make this work develop healthily, it is agreed to set up a national research society on the health law of foot reflex zone. " This therapy is of great promotion value for China, where economy and culture are underdeveloped. Although it has just emerged quietly in China, it will surely show great vitality in strengthening people's physique, preventing and treating diseases, improving people's physique and making greater contributions to human health.
3. What is foot reflexotherapy?
It is well known that human feet support a body weighing tens of kilograms with its special structure and can make various actions. However, many people don't know that people's feet are closely related to human health. In other words, whether feet are healthy or not can directly affect the physiological functions of human tissues and organs. The "foot reflex massage therapy" introduced here is to stimulate people's feet with fingers or massage tools.
The concept of "reflex zone" in foot reflex zone massage therapy refers to "nerve gathering point" Every tissue and organ of the human body has its nerve endings on the feet and fixed in a certain part, which is called "reflex zone". In other words, every tissue and organ of the human body has a corresponding anatomical position on the foot, which is called "reflex zone". For example, the renal reflex zone is called "reflex zone".
When a person's tissues, organs or internal organs are diseased, the corresponding reflex areas of human feet will undergo tissue variation. Stimulating these parts with tissue variation will cause pain, also known as tenderness reaction. For example, if the liver is diseased, pressing on the reflex zone of the sole of the right foot will cause tingling. If the liver function is normal, there will be no tingling sensation in the corresponding reflex zone of the liver (with the same force). When touching these diseased parts, besides tenderness, you can also feel the variation of sand, cord and mass, which is very important for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. For example, people with chronic gastritis or gastroduodenal diseases will have obvious tenderness in the gastric reflex area and feel obvious changes in sandy tissue. On the contrary, if you encounter obvious sandy tissue changes in the gastric reflex zone accompanied by tenderness, you can also diagnose stomach disease. At the same time, stomach diseases can be treated by massaging the gastric reflex zone. Therefore, the reflex zone is the place for disease diagnosis and treatment.
Chinese medicine believes that "there is something inside, and there must be something outside." The reflex zone is actually a part of human tissues and organs, and its feet reflect the pathological changes of the corresponding viscera and organs and the abnormalities in the body. The combination of different reflex zones of the foot constitutes a person's overall image, and the different manifestations of reflex zones can reflect the overall health status.
If the reflection areas of tissues, organs and internal organs are depicted on people's feet, it is obvious that after the feet are close together, there is a person sitting with his back to us, and the instep represents the front of the human body, the sole represents the back of the human body, the inside of the foot represents the spine, and the outside of the foot represents the limbs of the body.
All kinds of tissues and organs of the human body, the five internal organs are arranged according to their actual anatomical positions, and they are arranged very accurately according to their distribution forms (such as up, down, left, right and left, front and back order). These reflection areas are named after their corresponding whole parts or tissues and organs, and they are located in the positions or tissues corresponding to these reflection areas.
Generally speaking, the toe is the head reflex zone, the middle and upper part of the foot is divided into chest and upper abdomen reflex zone, the middle and lower part of the foot is the lower abdomen reflex zone, and the heel is the pelvic cavity and hip reflex zone.
The head reflex zone is distributed on 10 toes. The big toe represents the tissues and organs of human head and face, and the left and right big toes are combined into a whole, which is equivalent to the left and right sides of the head. The inside of the big toe is the middle of the head, the outside of the big toe is the outside of the head, the palm of the big toe is the back of the head, the back of the big toe is the face, the root of the big toe is equivalent to the human neck, and the reflection areas of the eyes are distributed on the second and third toes.
The arrangement of biped reflex zone is based on the arrangement of human tissues and organs. If you draw a line from the tip of the nose to the navel, this "midline" divides a person into two halves, and the relative position of the midline on the back is the spine, so the medial arch of biped is equivalent to the area where the spinal reflex zone of human body is located. The lateral arch of a biped is equivalent to the limbs of the body.
When the feet are together, the two heels look like buttocks, so the reproductive organ reflex zone is on both sides of the heel. The result of the distribution and location of biped reflex zone is just like the whole human body shrinking here.
This reflection relationship between the reflex zone and the whole body of biped reflects the holographic connection between the whole and the part of a living body. The whole contains parts, and parts also reflect the whole, that is, any small part of the whole represents all parts of the whole, and each small part of the whole also represents the epitome of the whole. Therefore, the concept of foot reflex massage therapy should be understood as: a person's feet together is like the epitome of the whole human body. All tissues and organs of the human body have their corresponding anatomical parts, that is, reflex zones. We use physical techniques (such as fingers or massage tools) to massage the reflex area of human feet, such as pressing, pressing, scraping and rubbing, so as to adjust the physiological functions of various organs and organs of the human body (mainly referring to the functions of circulatory system and endocrine system) and achieve the purposes of diagnosing diseases, treating diseases and self-care. We call it physical therapy foot.
We know that all tissues and organs of different sizes in the body have fixed reflex zones on their feet; The positions of tissues and organs in the reflex zone of their feet are distributed and arranged according to the normal anatomical positions of body tissues and organs. These reflex zones reflect your health, so you can know whether the physiological functions of the corresponding tissues and organs are normal by pressing with your fingers, and you can adjust and play the physiological functions of the corresponding tissues and organs normally by massaging these reflex zones. Then mobilize the body's self-healing ability. Without taking medicine or injection, the tissues and organs of the body can be in a relatively balanced state, which can coordinate with each other, cooperate with each other and connect with each other, so as to give full play to the disease resistance of the body against foreign pathogens and make people get a more natural and completely side-effect systemic treatment method that can be used for health care treatment.
The mechanism essence of foot massage therapy is to stimulate the reflex zone of the foot, adjust the physiological functions of the diseased tissues and organs, and restore some original physiological functions of the degraded or dysfunctional tissues and organs to a greater or lesser extent, so as to achieve the purpose of treating diseases and strengthening the body, especially for middle-aged and elderly people, which is the simplest, most practical and most effective natural therapy with health care function.
In a word, people's feet silently affect the health status of the body, and the reflex area of the foot is like a mirror reflecting the health status of the whole body, answering its related health status in silent language all the time. Therefore, we should update our understanding of human feet, dig out this mysterious power hidden in them, and turn this natural control and adjustment ability of human feet into a power for treating diseases and self-care that people consciously master and use.