NCCAOM HERB EXAM Complete Questions and Guide
Answers, 100% Verified Graded A+
1. What three herbs need to be dissolved in a strained decoction?
Answer: yi tang, chuan jiao, e jiao
2. Mix-fry with honey to decrease the damage to yin effect.
Answer: ma huang
3. Boil these two very toxic herbs for 30-60 minutes longer.
Answer: chuan wu and cao wu
4. Da zao combines with what herb to harmonize?
Answer: sheng jiang, since da zao is very sticky, and
sheng jiang is very spicy
5. What diuretic herb is good for jaundice, and also what point goes with it?
Answer: yin chen hao; DU 9
6. Must crush this herb or it does not work at all.
Answer: suan zao ren
7. Describe the primary vs. secondary fx for bai zhu vs. cang zhu.
, Answer: bai zhu strengthens
the spleen, which then dries damp; cang zhu dries damp, which then strengthens the spleen
8. What is the temperature of tian ma? How does this relate to its fx?
Answer: neutral; so it can be used for wind and tremors whether by heat or cold
9. What is the dosage for tian ma in powder form?
Answer: 0.9-1.5g
10. Yang tonics relate to regulating what fx?
Answer: endocrine
11. The driest herb.
Answer: cang zhu
12. activate blood herb that is used for stopping various types of pain.
Answer: yan husuo
13. How many grams of dan shen for vasculitis?
Answer: 60g
14. Temperature of sheng di vs. shu di.
Answer: sheng di is cold, while shu di is slightly warm
15. What two herbs used together are good to calm the fetus? (hint, one is a qi tonic, and
one clears damp-heat)
,Answer: bai zhu and huang qin
16. Best activate blood herbs to use for masses (2 herb combination).
Answer: sanleng and
e zhu
17. What yang tonic is used for infertility?
Answer: xian mao
18. What yang tonic regulates the 8 extra vessels?
Answer: lu rong
19. What is the only "very warm" herb, and what category is it in?
Answer: bu gu zhi; yang tonic
20. Three causes for LV wind.
Answer: blood deficiency, LV yang rising, high fever
21. Tian men dong vs. mai men dong.
Answer: tian men dong
Answer: heavier (goes to KD), very cold, must have
heat signs; mai men dong
lighter (goes to ST), slightly cold
22. Name the three very cold herbs.
, Answer: shi gao, mang xiao, tian men dong
23. four indications of anchor and calm herbs.
Answer: shen disturbance, LV yang rising, leakage of LU qi, ST rebel qi
24. The only flower that goes down.
Answer: xuan fu hua
25. Three fx of sang ji sheng and du zhong.
Answer: strengthen LV and KD, calms fetus, lowers BP
26. What part of gui ban is used for yin?
Answer: ventral for yin
27. Do not cook for longer than 10 minutes, or will not decrease BP.
Answer: gouteng
28. What is the dosage of hong hua needed to harmonize the blood?
Answer: 0.9-1.5(exam
could say 1-1.5)
29. Cooking this herb for more than 10 minutes will decrease its purgative effect.
Answer: da huang
30. What cathartic herb is incompatible with gan cao?
Answer: da ji
Answers, 100% Verified Graded A+
1. What three herbs need to be dissolved in a strained decoction?
Answer: yi tang, chuan jiao, e jiao
2. Mix-fry with honey to decrease the damage to yin effect.
Answer: ma huang
3. Boil these two very toxic herbs for 30-60 minutes longer.
Answer: chuan wu and cao wu
4. Da zao combines with what herb to harmonize?
Answer: sheng jiang, since da zao is very sticky, and
sheng jiang is very spicy
5. What diuretic herb is good for jaundice, and also what point goes with it?
Answer: yin chen hao; DU 9
6. Must crush this herb or it does not work at all.
Answer: suan zao ren
7. Describe the primary vs. secondary fx for bai zhu vs. cang zhu.
, Answer: bai zhu strengthens
the spleen, which then dries damp; cang zhu dries damp, which then strengthens the spleen
8. What is the temperature of tian ma? How does this relate to its fx?
Answer: neutral; so it can be used for wind and tremors whether by heat or cold
9. What is the dosage for tian ma in powder form?
Answer: 0.9-1.5g
10. Yang tonics relate to regulating what fx?
Answer: endocrine
11. The driest herb.
Answer: cang zhu
12. activate blood herb that is used for stopping various types of pain.
Answer: yan husuo
13. How many grams of dan shen for vasculitis?
Answer: 60g
14. Temperature of sheng di vs. shu di.
Answer: sheng di is cold, while shu di is slightly warm
15. What two herbs used together are good to calm the fetus? (hint, one is a qi tonic, and
one clears damp-heat)
,Answer: bai zhu and huang qin
16. Best activate blood herbs to use for masses (2 herb combination).
Answer: sanleng and
e zhu
17. What yang tonic is used for infertility?
Answer: xian mao
18. What yang tonic regulates the 8 extra vessels?
Answer: lu rong
19. What is the only "very warm" herb, and what category is it in?
Answer: bu gu zhi; yang tonic
20. Three causes for LV wind.
Answer: blood deficiency, LV yang rising, high fever
21. Tian men dong vs. mai men dong.
Answer: tian men dong
Answer: heavier (goes to KD), very cold, must have
heat signs; mai men dong
lighter (goes to ST), slightly cold
22. Name the three very cold herbs.
, Answer: shi gao, mang xiao, tian men dong
23. four indications of anchor and calm herbs.
Answer: shen disturbance, LV yang rising, leakage of LU qi, ST rebel qi
24. The only flower that goes down.
Answer: xuan fu hua
25. Three fx of sang ji sheng and du zhong.
Answer: strengthen LV and KD, calms fetus, lowers BP
26. What part of gui ban is used for yin?
Answer: ventral for yin
27. Do not cook for longer than 10 minutes, or will not decrease BP.
Answer: gouteng
28. What is the dosage of hong hua needed to harmonize the blood?
Answer: 0.9-1.5(exam
could say 1-1.5)
29. Cooking this herb for more than 10 minutes will decrease its purgative effect.
Answer: da huang
30. What cathartic herb is incompatible with gan cao?
Answer: da ji
