To date there is no scientific evidence that reflexology can cure disease. But for more than 20 years this simple and easily learned method of massage, by which practitioners seek to enhance the self-healing powers of bodily organs by stimulating nerve endings in the body's extremities, has played an irreplaceable role among the methods of maintaining health practiced by ordinary people in Taiwan.
雖然足部按摩能否治病，至今沒有科學證據，但這個簡單易學的按摩法，藉著反覆刺激身體的末梢神經，加強器官的自癒力，二十多年來在台灣民間保健上，確實扮演了不可或缺的角色。