Chi Acupuncture Final Exam Red Book Questions With Complete Solutions

How does acupuncture work? correct answer: Placing solid (not hollow) needles along "lines of meridian". - Several hundred acupuncture points. - Each has a specific set of functions. Which item is Yang? A. Fire B. Water correct answer: A. Fire Which item is yang? A. 10am B 10 pm correct answer: A. 10 am Which item is Yang? A. Mare B. Stallion correct answer: Stallion Which is yang? Winter or summer? correct answer: Summer Which is yang? East or West? correct answer: East Which is yin? Running or sitting? correct answer: Sitting Which is yin? Fast or slow? correct answer: Slow Which is yin? Head or tail? correct answer: Tail Which is yin? Interior or exterior? correct answer: Interior Which is yin? Front or back leg? correct answer: Back leg False cold occurs when correct answer: Yang is too low and Yin is normal False Heat occurs when correct answer: Yin is too low and yang is normal Excess heat occurs when correct answer: Yang is too high and yin is normal Excess cold occurs when correct answer: Yin is too high and yang is normal If the yin-yang equilibrium is destroyed by Excess Heat, what is the proper treatment principle to restore the Yin-Yang balance? correct answer: Clear excess heat If yin is Deficient, what is the treatment principle correct answer: Tonify Yin An outgoing, high energy and hyperactive two year old thoroughbred colt has a correct answer: Yang constitution A quiet, reserved, withdrawn thirteen year old Border Collie is more: correct answer: Yin A one-year-old, castrated male domestic shorthair cat presents with an acute onset of nasal discharge and congestion. His ears and back are hot. His temp. Is 104F. He has a red tongue and fast and strong pulses. What is the cats TCVM disease pattern? correct answer: Yang excess (excess heat) Spot is a quiet, gentle 15-yr-old spayed female DSH cat. She presents with chronic hind limb weakness. Her ears and back feel cold on palpitation. She has pale, purple and wet tongue. Her pulses are weak. What is her personality? What is her TCVM pattern? What type of foods should she get? correct answer: Yin; Yang def.; hot foods Marcie is a 10yr old sf lab presenting for chronic pruritus. She has had itchy skin since she was 5yrsold. Prednisone helped in the 1st 3 years, but signs have become worse in the past 2 years. The itchiness is worse in the spring, summer, and night. Her skin is mostly itchy around the face, neck and trunk, and she also has alopecia and a rash. Her eyes are red. Her tongue is red and dry, and gums are tacky. Her pulses are thready and fast. What is her TCVM diagnosis? What types of foods are good for her? correct answer: Yin def. and. Cooling foods What element is the mother of metal? correct answer: Earth What element is the child of water? correct answer: Wood Who is the grandparent of earth? correct answer: Wood Who is the grandchild of fire? correct answer: Metal Which is the correct order for the Sheng (promoting) cycle? correct answer: Wood to fire to earth to metal to water Which is the correct order for the Cheng (over-control) cycle? correct answer: Wood to Earth to water to fire to metal The spring season belongs to which element? correct answer: Wood The damp climate belongs to which element? correct answer: Earth The color red belongs to which element? corr