NBCE ACUPUNCTURE CERTIFICATION
PAPER 2026 FULL SOLUTION GRADED A+
●● What pain is Qi stagnation. Answer: Achy pain
●● What pain is blood stagnation. Answer: Sharp pain
●● What pain is cold. Answer: Cramp pain
●● What pain is wind. Answer: Itching or tremors
●● True heat (excess Yang). Answer: Red face, true fever, yellow coat
tongue
●● True cold (excess yin). Answer: Chills, cramping, thick white coat
tongue
●● False heat (yin deficient). Answer: Dry mouth, hot flashes, Malar
flash
●● False cold (yang deficient). Answer: Cold hands and feet, pale
tongue
,●● Jing. Answer: ESSENCE
-Formed at conception
-Can't be replaced
- Governs growth and developed
- Stored in kidneys
- starts to decline in 5th cycle and gone by 7 or 8th cycle
●● Shen. Answer: -CONSCIOUSNESS
-Stored in Heart
-Reflect in Eyes
-Acquired from life experience
●● Jin Ye. Answer: body fluids
●● Yang. Answer: -white
-function
-present time
-Dynamic
- causing change
- warms
- defense
- superior, posterior, lateral and external
, - hallow organs
●● Yin. Answer: - black
- substance
- static
- preserving
- cools
- rest
- nourishes / moistens
- chronic disorder
- introvert
- inferior, anterior, medial and internal
- solid organs
●● Zang fu diagnosis. Answer: Most common framework
-organ/substance/disharmony
●● Lungs. Answer: - production of Qi
- governs the ski
●● Spleen. Answer: -manages digestion and assimilation
- transports and transforms everything
PAPER 2026 FULL SOLUTION GRADED A+
●● What pain is Qi stagnation. Answer: Achy pain
●● What pain is blood stagnation. Answer: Sharp pain
●● What pain is cold. Answer: Cramp pain
●● What pain is wind. Answer: Itching or tremors
●● True heat (excess Yang). Answer: Red face, true fever, yellow coat
tongue
●● True cold (excess yin). Answer: Chills, cramping, thick white coat
tongue
●● False heat (yin deficient). Answer: Dry mouth, hot flashes, Malar
flash
●● False cold (yang deficient). Answer: Cold hands and feet, pale
tongue
,●● Jing. Answer: ESSENCE
-Formed at conception
-Can't be replaced
- Governs growth and developed
- Stored in kidneys
- starts to decline in 5th cycle and gone by 7 or 8th cycle
●● Shen. Answer: -CONSCIOUSNESS
-Stored in Heart
-Reflect in Eyes
-Acquired from life experience
●● Jin Ye. Answer: body fluids
●● Yang. Answer: -white
-function
-present time
-Dynamic
- causing change
- warms
- defense
- superior, posterior, lateral and external
, - hallow organs
●● Yin. Answer: - black
- substance
- static
- preserving
- cools
- rest
- nourishes / moistens
- chronic disorder
- introvert
- inferior, anterior, medial and internal
- solid organs
●● Zang fu diagnosis. Answer: Most common framework
-organ/substance/disharmony
●● Lungs. Answer: - production of Qi
- governs the ski
●● Spleen. Answer: -manages digestion and assimilation
- transports and transforms everything