NCCAOM: Herbs Exam Questions Part 1 Questions AND
Correct Answers
A 12 y.o. boy has a fever, chills, a dry sore throat. The T has a
thin yellow coating and the P is superficial. What kind of food
would you prescribe? - ✔✔Pears w/ mint
A 19 y.o. female has candida. Her T coating is thick greasy and
yellow tongue. What food would you prescribe? - ✔✔Mung
Bean and Daikon
A 32 Y.O male has acute, red, swollen, and painful knee joints
that are worse with heat. What kind of food would you
prescribe? - ✔✔Mung beans and Dandelion
A 32y.o. female has an excess and hot pattern. What kind of
food would you prescribe? - ✔✔Spinach and Zucchini
A 37y.o. male has right knee pain that is sharp, and fixed. How
compresses help reduce the pain. On palpation the knee feels
cold to the touch. What kind of food would you prescribe? -
✔✔Lamb and scallions
,A 44 y.o. female has a run nose w/clear water discharge,
sneezing, aversion to cold, and achy muscles. The T has a thin
white coating and the P is superficial. What kind for food
would you prescribe? - ✔✔Parsnips and Cinnamon
A 68 y.o. obese female has swollen knee joints w. an sense of
heaviness in the limbs. The pain is dull- aching and lingers. She
often feels sluggish. What kind of food would you prescribe? -
✔✔Mustard greens and Corn meal
A 70y.o.women w/post surgical constipation, dry stool, no
distention, or bloating, irritability and bleeding gums could
use what formula? - ✔✔Tiao Wei Cheng Qi Tang
A 78 y.o. male is suffering from constipation. He also
complains of frequent urination that often wakes him during
the night. He has a dull pain in his low back and his knees have
occasional pain. His T is pale, P is weak and slow. What is the
good formula for him? - ✔✔Ji Chuan Jian
A patient has amenorrhea, lustreless complexion and nails,
muscle tension, and feels feverish. How would you modify Si
Wu Tang? - ✔✔Substitute Sheng Di Huang for Shu Di Huang
, A patient has cough and dry throat from Xu yin. What kind of
animal meat would be recommended? - ✔✔Pork
A patient has coughing with profuse sputum and vomiting of
clear fluids. How would you modify Er Chen Tang? - ✔✔Add
Cang Zhu and Bai Zhu
A patient has fever with profuse sweating, aversion to heat,
red face, strong thirst, and irritability. You prescribe Bai Hu
Tang. He calls you and say that he how have a cold w/feeling
of chills. What would you add? - ✔✔Gui Zhi
A patient has fever, some chills, sore throat, thirst, cough and
HA. You prescribe Yin Qiao San. Next day he says that cough is
much worse. How would you modify the prescription? -
✔✔Add Xing Ren
A patient has more chills than fever, no sweating, coughing,
wheezing, copious white sputum, stifling sensation in chest,
difficult breathing when lying down, heavy feeling body, body
aches, nausea, loose stools, edema, tongue with greasy wet
Correct Answers
A 12 y.o. boy has a fever, chills, a dry sore throat. The T has a
thin yellow coating and the P is superficial. What kind of food
would you prescribe? - ✔✔Pears w/ mint
A 19 y.o. female has candida. Her T coating is thick greasy and
yellow tongue. What food would you prescribe? - ✔✔Mung
Bean and Daikon
A 32 Y.O male has acute, red, swollen, and painful knee joints
that are worse with heat. What kind of food would you
prescribe? - ✔✔Mung beans and Dandelion
A 32y.o. female has an excess and hot pattern. What kind of
food would you prescribe? - ✔✔Spinach and Zucchini
A 37y.o. male has right knee pain that is sharp, and fixed. How
compresses help reduce the pain. On palpation the knee feels
cold to the touch. What kind of food would you prescribe? -
✔✔Lamb and scallions
,A 44 y.o. female has a run nose w/clear water discharge,
sneezing, aversion to cold, and achy muscles. The T has a thin
white coating and the P is superficial. What kind for food
would you prescribe? - ✔✔Parsnips and Cinnamon
A 68 y.o. obese female has swollen knee joints w. an sense of
heaviness in the limbs. The pain is dull- aching and lingers. She
often feels sluggish. What kind of food would you prescribe? -
✔✔Mustard greens and Corn meal
A 70y.o.women w/post surgical constipation, dry stool, no
distention, or bloating, irritability and bleeding gums could
use what formula? - ✔✔Tiao Wei Cheng Qi Tang
A 78 y.o. male is suffering from constipation. He also
complains of frequent urination that often wakes him during
the night. He has a dull pain in his low back and his knees have
occasional pain. His T is pale, P is weak and slow. What is the
good formula for him? - ✔✔Ji Chuan Jian
A patient has amenorrhea, lustreless complexion and nails,
muscle tension, and feels feverish. How would you modify Si
Wu Tang? - ✔✔Substitute Sheng Di Huang for Shu Di Huang
, A patient has cough and dry throat from Xu yin. What kind of
animal meat would be recommended? - ✔✔Pork
A patient has coughing with profuse sputum and vomiting of
clear fluids. How would you modify Er Chen Tang? - ✔✔Add
Cang Zhu and Bai Zhu
A patient has fever with profuse sweating, aversion to heat,
red face, strong thirst, and irritability. You prescribe Bai Hu
Tang. He calls you and say that he how have a cold w/feeling
of chills. What would you add? - ✔✔Gui Zhi
A patient has fever, some chills, sore throat, thirst, cough and
HA. You prescribe Yin Qiao San. Next day he says that cough is
much worse. How would you modify the prescription? -
✔✔Add Xing Ren
A patient has more chills than fever, no sweating, coughing,
wheezing, copious white sputum, stifling sensation in chest,
difficult breathing when lying down, heavy feeling body, body
aches, nausea, loose stools, edema, tongue with greasy wet
