Why is it said that "washing feet before going to bed is better than tonic"?

As the saying goes, "cold starts from the feet", washing your feet with hot water before going to bed is an effective and comfortable health care method.

In fact, health-preserving experts of all ages in our country have attached great importance to foot washing, especially foot washing before going to bed, and even left many poems about this.

Su Dongpo once talked about the benefits of foot washing before going to bed in a poem: The master advised me to wash my feet before sleeping, and I would no longer hear the bells and drums when I fell into bed.

Lu You lived to be 85 years old in a turbulent era. One of his health tips was to wash his feet with hot water before going to bed. When he was 82 years old, he once said to his family members: "When you wash your feet in spring, the rising sun will help you heal; when you wash your feet in summer, you can get rid of the heat; when you wash your feet in autumn, your lungs and intestines will be moistened; when you wash your feet in winter, your pubic area will be warm." Lu You He has a deep understanding of the benefits of foot washing, and even wrote a popular foot-washing poem: The old man no longer works in farming and mulberry fields, but he has not forgotten to count chickens and dolphins. It's so quick to wash your feet and go to bed, and your children and grandchildren are getting older and they are getting rid of the boiling soup.

Chinese medicine believes that "Yongquan Point" is the location of the body's vitality and is closely related to human health. Therefore, it is said that the feet are the "second heart" of the human body. Modern reflexology medicine has also discovered that the reflex areas of the feet are connected to the tissues and organs of the whole body, so it is said that "washing your feet before going to bed is better than tonic."