This is a special disease which strikes people during the summer when the temperature is extreme, well above 40 degree C. If your job or business is such that you are required to move in the open for long hours under the sun, you have the ill luck to suffer a stroke. If you don’t have proper clothing and you don’t wear the cap or hat to protect yourself from the burning rays of the sun, you invite heat stroke. The reason for the heat stroke is simple. The continuous sweating during the summer season leads to loss of vital strength-giving salts in the body and it makes you feel exhausted. When the condition is acute, you may faint and become unconscious. The condition is also known as dehydration.

Such exhaustion leads to heat stroke. You may have high fever, absence of sweating, rapid pulse and total confusion. You feel extremely weak. You have severe ache in the body. Immediate treatment is required in the case of heat stroke. Some home remedies can prove to be very useful in a condition of heat stroke. 

If the temperature of the heat stroke patient continues to rise, all apparel should be removed from the body of the patient and his body should be wrapped in a cloth with iced water. He may be made to sit under the shower alternatively and this process should continue till the body temperature touches 38.9C. At this stage, the pulse may show the signs of weakness. Give 50 to 75ml. of Mritsanjivani Sura.

Prevention is better than cure, it is said. How true this is in case of heat stroke! During summer, drink water generously and at regular intervals. Add a little salt, preferably rock-salt to your drinking water, before you go out in the sun. This will replenish the loss of salts in the body caused due to the burning rays of the sun. Panna, the traditional raw mango juice if taken daily blocks heat stroke. Even if you are not thirsty, develop the habit of drinking water during the summer.

To the heat stroke patient, normal food can be given. But don’t give hard food which are difficult to digest.

Take certain basic precautions when you go out in summer. Cover the head and back of the neck with a thick cloth. Never take purgatives, when you have a heat stroke. The following herbal remedies are suggested for this condition:

1. Mahashishir Panak(decoction): To be given to the patient in doses of 10 ml. every 30 minutes.

2. 240 mg. of chandanadi churna with 120 mg.of rameshwar rasa to be given thrice daily with water of trifala.