Heat stroke can be relieved by physical cooling, medication and acupuncture.
Physical cooling: for patients with mild symptoms, you can use a cold towel to wipe the skin on the surface of the body to reduce the patient’s body temperature, which can effectively relieve dizziness, body heat and other mild symptoms.
Medication: Heatstroke in Chinese medicine is caused by the external infection of summer, summer is one of the six evils, the human body is infected with summer, resulting in fluid injury and Qi depletion, triggering symptoms such as dizziness, body heat, thirst and so on. You can use Wang’s Heat-clearing and Qi-cleansing Soup to clear heat and relieve heatstroke under your doctor’s guidance; if combined with dampness, then you can use Huo Xiang Zheng Qi San.
Acupuncture and moxibustion: Doctors may choose to relieve heatstroke by acupuncture at Laogong, Yongquan, Shakuzawa, Guanchong and other acupoints, mainly by straight stabbing, or pointing to bleed.
The adverse effects and contraindications of the above formulas are not known. Patients who suffer from heat stroke can be helped by their family members to properly relieve their symptoms through physical cooling, and seek timely medical attention and follow the doctor’s instructions to actively use medications and other complementary treatments.