Five steps to foot care

Foot care mainly involves foot therapy, which is foot soaking and foot massage. There are many acupoints on the feet, and each acupoint determines the health of the body. After soaking your feet in water at about 40℃ for more than 10 minutes, you can massage the soles of your feet with your hands.

1. Thumb pressure method

Thumb pressure method refers to pressing with the thumb pad as the fulcrum. This method is suitable for reflex areas such as the inner ribs, outer ribs, trachea, and groin.

2. Hook Palm Technique

Key points: The operator's middle finger, ring finger, and little finger's 1st and 2nd joints are flexed 90 degrees and clasped tightly in the palm, the 1st joint of the index finger is flexed, the 2nd joint is flexed 45 degrees, the last knuckle of the index finger points to the palm, the thumb joint is slightly bent, the tiger's mouth is opened wide, forming a posture of holding the index finger, shaped like a sickle.

Force point: the radial side of the apex after the first joint of the index finger is flexed 90 degrees (close to the thumb side), or the radial side of the pulp of the last segment of the index finger, or the apex after the second joint of the index finger is flexed 45 degrees.

Scope of application: sole reflex zone, medial foot reflex zone, lateral foot reflex zone.

3. Buckle Fist

The single index finger fist technique means that the practitioner supports the patient's foot with one hand, and half-clenches the other hand into a fist. The 1st and 2nd interphalangeal joints of the middle finger, ring finger, and little finger are flexed, and the dorsal side of the middle section of the index finger near the 1st interphalangeal joint (proximal interphalangeal joint) is used as the force point to apply fixed-point pressure. This method is suitable for the reflex areas of the soles of the feet, such as the adrenal glands, kidneys, cerebellum and brain stem, brain, heart, spleen, stomach, pancreas, small intestine, large intestine, and gonads.

4. Thumb push palm method

Key points: The operator's index finger, middle finger, ring finger and little finger's 1st and 2nd knuckles are slightly bent, the thumb's tip is facing the other 4 fingers, and the tiger's mouth is wide open.

Force point: radial side of thumb tip.

Scope of application: medial foot reflex zone, lateral foot reflex zone, dorsum of foot reflex zone.

5. Two-finger clamp method

Key points: The operator's ring finger and the 1st and 2nd knuckles of the little finger are flexed 90 degrees each and clasped tightly in the palm of the hand. The middle finger is slightly bent and inserted between the toe being massaged and the other toe as a foil. The 1st knuckle of the index finger is flexed 90 degrees, and the ulnar side of the 2nd knuckle (close to the little finger side) is placed on the reflex area to be massaged. The tip of the thumb is pressed tightly on the radial side of the 2nd knuckle of the index finger. The flexion and extension movement of the thumb knuckle is used to press the 2nd knuckle of the index finger to stimulate the reflex area.

Force point: Use the flexion and extension of the thumb joint to drive the index finger to exert force on the reflex area. The middle finger does not exert force but only serves as an auxiliary supporting role.

Scope of application: neck push reflex area, parathyroid reflex area.