NCCAOM Acupuncture Board Exam
Questions and Correct Answers |
Graded A+
Yin Channel element order - ✔✔JW -- Wood
YS -- Fire
SS -- Earth
JR -- Metal
HS -- Water
Yang Channel element order - ✔✔JW -- Metal
YS -- Water
SS -- Wood
JR -- Fire
HS -- Earth
4 needle -- deficiency syndrome - ✔✔tonify horary point on mother channel
tonify mother element on affected channel
sedate the horary point on controlling channel
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,sedate controlling element on affected channel
4 needle -- excess syndrome - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Xi Cleft of Yin Qiao
2 cun above K3, 1/2 cun anterior to K7
BL-59 (bp) - ✔✔Xi Cleft of Yang Qiao
3 cun superior to BL-60
GB-35 (bp) - ✔✔Xi Cleft of Yang Wei
7 cun above top of lateral malleolus, posterior border of fibula
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,K-9 (bp) - ✔✔Xi Cleft of Yin Wei
5 cun above K3
Ren Luo point - ✔✔Ren15
7 above umbilicus
Du Luo point - ✔✔Du 1
middle point between coccyx and anus
when there is invisible phlegm missing HT, which point best opens orifices? -
✔✔H9 (jing, wood)
LU9 (bp) - ✔✔Shu Stream
Earth
Yuan Source
Influential: Vessels
on transverse crease of wrist, in depression on radial side of radial artery
aphasia and tongue stiffness - ✔✔H5 and Du15, Ren23
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, HT points - ✔✔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) - ✔✔Xi Cleft
(acute chest pain)
5 cun proximal to P-7, between tendons
P-5 (bp) - ✔✔(empirical: malaria)
Jing River
Metal
3 cun proximal to P-7, between tendons
empirical food retention - ✔✔Inner NeiTing
Liv5 nerve caution - ✔✔saphenous nerve
P-6 nerve caution - ✔✔medial nerve
LU-10 (bp) - ✔✔Ying Spring
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Questions and Correct Answers |
Graded A+
Yin Channel element order - ✔✔JW -- Wood
YS -- Fire
SS -- Earth
JR -- Metal
HS -- Water
Yang Channel element order - ✔✔JW -- Metal
YS -- Water
SS -- Wood
JR -- Fire
HS -- Earth
4 needle -- deficiency syndrome - ✔✔tonify horary point on mother channel
tonify mother element on affected channel
sedate the horary point on controlling channel
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,sedate controlling element on affected channel
4 needle -- excess syndrome - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Xi Cleft of Yin Qiao
2 cun above K3, 1/2 cun anterior to K7
BL-59 (bp) - ✔✔Xi Cleft of Yang Qiao
3 cun superior to BL-60
GB-35 (bp) - ✔✔Xi Cleft of Yang Wei
7 cun above top of lateral malleolus, posterior border of fibula
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,K-9 (bp) - ✔✔Xi Cleft of Yin Wei
5 cun above K3
Ren Luo point - ✔✔Ren15
7 above umbilicus
Du Luo point - ✔✔Du 1
middle point between coccyx and anus
when there is invisible phlegm missing HT, which point best opens orifices? -
✔✔H9 (jing, wood)
LU9 (bp) - ✔✔Shu Stream
Earth
Yuan Source
Influential: Vessels
on transverse crease of wrist, in depression on radial side of radial artery
aphasia and tongue stiffness - ✔✔H5 and Du15, Ren23
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, HT points - ✔✔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) - ✔✔Xi Cleft
(acute chest pain)
5 cun proximal to P-7, between tendons
P-5 (bp) - ✔✔(empirical: malaria)
Jing River
Metal
3 cun proximal to P-7, between tendons
empirical food retention - ✔✔Inner NeiTing
Liv5 nerve caution - ✔✔saphenous nerve
P-6 nerve caution - ✔✔medial nerve
LU-10 (bp) - ✔✔Ying Spring
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