NCCAOM FOUNDATION PREP EXAM 2026
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS 100%
VERIFIED
◉ Wei Level. Answer: Fever, aversion to cold, headache, slight
sweating, running nose with yellow discharge, slight thirst, sore
throat, red and swollen tonsils
T: Red sides or tip of tongue
P: Superficial, Rapid
◉ Qi Level. Answer: High fever, aversion to heat, cough with
expectoration of thin-yellow sputum, thirst
T: Red with thick yellow coating
P: Rolling, rapid
◉ Ying (Nutritive) level. Answer: Fever at night, dry mouth with no
desire to drink, insomnia, mental restlessness, aphasia, spots on
skin, in sever cases coma (heat causing change to mental state)
T: Deep-red, no coat
P: Thready, rapid
,◉ Xue (Blood) level. Answer: High fever, skin eruptions, vomiting of
blood, epistaxis, blood in stools, blood in urine, manic behavior, in
severe cases convulsions
T: Deep red without coat
P: String-taut, rapid
◉ 6 Stages. Answer: Tai Yang (greater yang)
Yang Ming (bright yang)
Shao Yang (lesser yang)
Tai Yin (Greater yin)
Shao Yin (lesser yin)
Jue Yin
◉ Tai Yang (Greater Yang). Answer: Aversion to cold
Initial invasion of external cold through pores and insterstices of the
skin
Headache and stiff neck, chills and fever, floating pulse
Gui Zhi Tang (sweat it out)
P: Floating
◉ Yang Ming (Bright Yang). Answer: Aversion to Heat
, Channel Syndrome:
Clear ST heat
4 Bigs (fever, sweat, thirst, pulse)
Red face, no aversion to cold
T: Red body w/ thick yellow coat
P: excess
Heat on the interior - purge through bowels (poop it out), clear ST
heat
Organ Syndrome:
Drain fire from ST and intestines
4 Bigs
Constant fever, more pronounced in the afternoon, abdominal
distention, constipation
T: Thick, dry, yellow coat
P: excess
(poop it out)
Da Cheng Qi Tang
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS 100%
VERIFIED
◉ Wei Level. Answer: Fever, aversion to cold, headache, slight
sweating, running nose with yellow discharge, slight thirst, sore
throat, red and swollen tonsils
T: Red sides or tip of tongue
P: Superficial, Rapid
◉ Qi Level. Answer: High fever, aversion to heat, cough with
expectoration of thin-yellow sputum, thirst
T: Red with thick yellow coating
P: Rolling, rapid
◉ Ying (Nutritive) level. Answer: Fever at night, dry mouth with no
desire to drink, insomnia, mental restlessness, aphasia, spots on
skin, in sever cases coma (heat causing change to mental state)
T: Deep-red, no coat
P: Thready, rapid
,◉ Xue (Blood) level. Answer: High fever, skin eruptions, vomiting of
blood, epistaxis, blood in stools, blood in urine, manic behavior, in
severe cases convulsions
T: Deep red without coat
P: String-taut, rapid
◉ 6 Stages. Answer: Tai Yang (greater yang)
Yang Ming (bright yang)
Shao Yang (lesser yang)
Tai Yin (Greater yin)
Shao Yin (lesser yin)
Jue Yin
◉ Tai Yang (Greater Yang). Answer: Aversion to cold
Initial invasion of external cold through pores and insterstices of the
skin
Headache and stiff neck, chills and fever, floating pulse
Gui Zhi Tang (sweat it out)
P: Floating
◉ Yang Ming (Bright Yang). Answer: Aversion to Heat
, Channel Syndrome:
Clear ST heat
4 Bigs (fever, sweat, thirst, pulse)
Red face, no aversion to cold
T: Red body w/ thick yellow coat
P: excess
Heat on the interior - purge through bowels (poop it out), clear ST
heat
Organ Syndrome:
Drain fire from ST and intestines
4 Bigs
Constant fever, more pronounced in the afternoon, abdominal
distention, constipation
T: Thick, dry, yellow coat
P: excess
(poop it out)
Da Cheng Qi Tang
