This is an acute disease with sudden onset of high fever, profuse sweating, mental confusion, sleepiness and sometimes convulsions due to the attack of summer-heat pathogen when working under a scorching sun or in a very hot environment. It is same as heat apoplexy in modern medicine and can be treated by the following methods.
Acupuncture therapy:
At regular and extra acupoints:
Location: Twelve, ling points or Shixuan (EX- UE 11), Quchi (LI 11) and Hegu (LI 4) acupoints.
Method of manipulation: Bleeding therapy is applied at 12 Jing points and Shixuan and routine acupuncture with strong needling stimulation is applied at Quchi and Hegu acupoints.
At special acupoints beside the second metacarpal bone:
Location: Head acupoint and neck acupoint.
Method of manipulation: Bleeding therapy.