Gravel in my shoes to cure ills?

Factual Questions
1

I gather that Reflexology is the practice of stimulating particular pressure points on the soles of the feet which are connected (as in acupuncture) to specific parts of one’s body. If this is the case, then when I am wearing ill-fitting shoes, or have a small stone in one of them, why don’t I feel the effect in some other part of my body? And why when walking barefoot on a shingle beach, do I not feel sensations all over my body, depending on where the stones stick in?

In a similar vein, do people having medical injections ever get an acupuncture effect into the bargain? Could I go the doctor for a flu jab and leave a non-smoker?

2

Reflexology is hokum. Plain and simple. If you put gravel in your shoes, you’ll get sore feet. If you pay a reflexologist, you’ll get a lighter wallet and a foot massage.

3

There’s a natural birth control method for men that involves putting a sharp stone in the shoe. It makes a man limp. :wink:

4

If all parts of the body are represented on the sole of the foot, where is the sole of the foot represented?

5

Well, it certainly would make me forget other problems, at least for a while.

6

Here is some info on it at the Skeptic’s Dictionary.