NCCAOM CERTIFICATION TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
ANSWERS
●● Yang Channel element order
Answer: JW -- Metal
YS -- Water
SS -- Wood
JR -- Fire
HS -- Earth
●● 4 needle -- deficiency syndrome
Answer: tonify horary point on mother channel
tonify mother element on affected channel
sedate the horary point on controlling channel
sedate controlling element on affected channel
●● 4 needle -- excess syndrome
,Answer: tonify the horary point on the controlling channel
tonify the controlling point on the affected channel
sedate the horary point on son channel
sedate son point on affected channel
●● K-8
Answer: Xi Cleft of Yin Qiao
2 cun above K3, 1/2 cun anterior to K7
●● BL-59 (bp)
Answer: Xi Cleft of Yang Qiao
3 cun superior to BL-60
●● GB-35 (bp)
Answer: Xi Cleft of Yang Wei
7 cun above top of lateral malleolus, posterior border of fibula
,●● K-9 (bp)
Answer: Xi Cleft of Yin Wei
5 cun above K3
●● Ren Luo point
Answer: Ren15
7 above umbilicus
●● Du Luo point
Answer: Du 1
middle point between coccyx and anus
●● when there is invisible phlegm missing HT, which point best opens
orifices?
Answer: H9 (jing, wood)
●● LU9 (bp)
Answer: Shu Stream
, Earth
Yuan Source
Influential: Vessels
on transverse crease of wrist, in depression on radial side of radial artery
●● aphasia and tongue stiffness
Answer: H5 and Du15, Ren23
●● HT points
Answer: H4 Jing River, metal
H5 aphasia, Luo
H6 night sweats, Xi Cleft
H7 insomia, Shu Stream, earth
H8 tongue sores, Ying Spring, fire
●● P-4 (bp)
Answer: Xi Cleft
(acute chest pain)
5 cun proximal to P-7, between tendons
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
ANSWERS
●● Yang Channel element order
Answer: JW -- Metal
YS -- Water
SS -- Wood
JR -- Fire
HS -- Earth
●● 4 needle -- deficiency syndrome
Answer: tonify horary point on mother channel
tonify mother element on affected channel
sedate the horary point on controlling channel
sedate controlling element on affected channel
●● 4 needle -- excess syndrome
,Answer: tonify the horary point on the controlling channel
tonify the controlling point on the affected channel
sedate the horary point on son channel
sedate son point on affected channel
●● K-8
Answer: Xi Cleft of Yin Qiao
2 cun above K3, 1/2 cun anterior to K7
●● BL-59 (bp)
Answer: Xi Cleft of Yang Qiao
3 cun superior to BL-60
●● GB-35 (bp)
Answer: Xi Cleft of Yang Wei
7 cun above top of lateral malleolus, posterior border of fibula
,●● K-9 (bp)
Answer: Xi Cleft of Yin Wei
5 cun above K3
●● Ren Luo point
Answer: Ren15
7 above umbilicus
●● Du Luo point
Answer: Du 1
middle point between coccyx and anus
●● when there is invisible phlegm missing HT, which point best opens
orifices?
Answer: H9 (jing, wood)
●● LU9 (bp)
Answer: Shu Stream
, Earth
Yuan Source
Influential: Vessels
on transverse crease of wrist, in depression on radial side of radial artery
●● aphasia and tongue stiffness
Answer: H5 and Du15, Ren23
●● HT points
Answer: H4 Jing River, metal
H5 aphasia, Luo
H6 night sweats, Xi Cleft
H7 insomia, Shu Stream, earth
H8 tongue sores, Ying Spring, fire
●● P-4 (bp)
Answer: Xi Cleft
(acute chest pain)
5 cun proximal to P-7, between tendons