Heatstroke does not usually cause coughing, but is characterized by high fever and sweating, nausea and vomiting, and dizziness, which can be treated with patchouli zhengqi water and so on.
In Chinese medicine, coughing is considered to be related to wind attack, phlegm heat, phlegm dampness in the lungs, lung yin deficiency, lung and kidney deficiency and other factors. Heatstroke does not cause coughing.
After heatstroke, the body of summer dampness evil blazing, so, it will show fever, sweating, limbs heavy (limb weakness, sinking), chest and epigastric plagued (chest and abdomen feel fullness and stuffiness), nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea, and even delirium, high fever, and so on.
For those who suffer from heatstroke, they need to be treated with medicines that relieve the surface and resolve dampness (relieving the evils from the outside and getting rid of the dampness in the body), and regulate qi and zhong (regulating the qi of the spleen and stomach to make the spleen and stomach function smoothly), and the common medicines are patchouli zhengqi water and so on. Nourishing herbs should not be used while taking this medicine.
Specific medication should follow the doctor’s instructions.