NCCAOM Herbal Board - Exam
Questions and Correct Answers
100% Verified Graded A+
1. How many grams of dan shen for vasculitis?
Answer: 60g
2. What yang tonic regulates the 8 extra vessels?
Answer: lu rong
3. What is the only "very warm" herb, and what category is it in?
Answer: bu gu zhi; yang tonic
4. What exterior releasing herb must crush and cook in cheesecloth?
Answer: xin yi hua
5. What is the only "shen" that sedates, and does not tonify?
Answer: ku shen
6. Out of huang qin, lian, or bai, the best one for pregnancy heat.
Answer: huangqin
,7. Best out of the 3 huangs (huang qi, huang lin, huang bai) for dysentery.
Answer: huang
lian
8. What herb has the fx to "lead the fire back to the source"?
Answer: rougui
9. Herb for trichomonas vaginitis.
Answer: xian he cao
10. Best stop bleeding herb for trauma
Answer: san qi
11. bai shao, and name the three related fx of bai shao with this point
Answer: soothesLV
yang, softens LV, tonifies LV blood
12. What herb decreases the greasy quality of shu di?
Answer: sharen
13. Describe the fx of dang gui related to the head, body, and tail.
Answer: head tonify; body
tonify more than move; tail move
14. What digestive herb moves blood stasis and is good for postpartum lochia?-
,Answer: shan zha
15. What digestive herb is added to pills containing heavy minerals, and is also for alcohol
absorption?
Answer: shen qu
16. What digestive herb transforms phlegm?
Answer: lai fu zi
17. Name the two fx of mai ya
Answer: soothes LV qi and inhibits lactation (when fried, 60g)
18. What digestive herb is used for HTN and cholesterol
Answer: shan zha(with jue ming zi)
19. What two herbs are added to long dan xie gan tang for hemoptysis?
Answer: mu dan
pi and ce bai ye
20. What herb is added to ba zheng san for bloody UTI?
Answer: baimaogen
21. For fever in pregnancy.
Answer: huang qin
, 22. What stop bleeding herb do you need to wrap in cheesecloth? It also is used especially
for GYN.
Answer: pu huang
23. Namethe herbthatstrengthens thespleen, transformsphlegm, harmonizes the middle
jiao, and calms the shen.
Answer: fu ling
24. What diuretic expels parasites?
Answer: bian xu
25. What 3 herbs drain heat in the HT via SJ?
Answer: deng xin cao, mu tong (diuretic), and dan zhu ye
(clear and purge heat)
26. Use deng xin cao as moxa for what
Answer: mumps,
27. What two diuretics expel phlegm and stop cough?
Answer: shi wei, che qian zi
28. What diuretic clears summer heat along with what other herb, and what are the herb
ratios?
Answer: hua shi (180g) along with gan cao (30g); 61 ratio
Questions and Correct Answers
100% Verified Graded A+
1. How many grams of dan shen for vasculitis?
Answer: 60g
2. What yang tonic regulates the 8 extra vessels?
Answer: lu rong
3. What is the only "very warm" herb, and what category is it in?
Answer: bu gu zhi; yang tonic
4. What exterior releasing herb must crush and cook in cheesecloth?
Answer: xin yi hua
5. What is the only "shen" that sedates, and does not tonify?
Answer: ku shen
6. Out of huang qin, lian, or bai, the best one for pregnancy heat.
Answer: huangqin
,7. Best out of the 3 huangs (huang qi, huang lin, huang bai) for dysentery.
Answer: huang
lian
8. What herb has the fx to "lead the fire back to the source"?
Answer: rougui
9. Herb for trichomonas vaginitis.
Answer: xian he cao
10. Best stop bleeding herb for trauma
Answer: san qi
11. bai shao, and name the three related fx of bai shao with this point
Answer: soothesLV
yang, softens LV, tonifies LV blood
12. What herb decreases the greasy quality of shu di?
Answer: sharen
13. Describe the fx of dang gui related to the head, body, and tail.
Answer: head tonify; body
tonify more than move; tail move
14. What digestive herb moves blood stasis and is good for postpartum lochia?-
,Answer: shan zha
15. What digestive herb is added to pills containing heavy minerals, and is also for alcohol
absorption?
Answer: shen qu
16. What digestive herb transforms phlegm?
Answer: lai fu zi
17. Name the two fx of mai ya
Answer: soothes LV qi and inhibits lactation (when fried, 60g)
18. What digestive herb is used for HTN and cholesterol
Answer: shan zha(with jue ming zi)
19. What two herbs are added to long dan xie gan tang for hemoptysis?
Answer: mu dan
pi and ce bai ye
20. What herb is added to ba zheng san for bloody UTI?
Answer: baimaogen
21. For fever in pregnancy.
Answer: huang qin
, 22. What stop bleeding herb do you need to wrap in cheesecloth? It also is used especially
for GYN.
Answer: pu huang
23. Namethe herbthatstrengthens thespleen, transformsphlegm, harmonizes the middle
jiao, and calms the shen.
Answer: fu ling
24. What diuretic expels parasites?
Answer: bian xu
25. What 3 herbs drain heat in the HT via SJ?
Answer: deng xin cao, mu tong (diuretic), and dan zhu ye
(clear and purge heat)
26. Use deng xin cao as moxa for what
Answer: mumps,
27. What two diuretics expel phlegm and stop cough?
Answer: shi wei, che qian zi
28. What diuretic clears summer heat along with what other herb, and what are the herb
ratios?
Answer: hua shi (180g) along with gan cao (30g); 61 ratio
