NCCAOM CERTIFICATION TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS VERIFIED ANSWERS

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