NCCAOM Foundations Comprehensive Questions
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4 Levels - answer-Wei (Defensive)
Qi
Ying (Nutritive)
Xue (Blood)
Wei Level - answer-Fever, aversion to cold, headache, slight sweating, running nose with yellow
discharge, slight thirst, sore throat, red and swollen tonsils
T: Red sides or tip of tongue
P: Superficial, Rapid
Qi Level - answer-High fever, aversion to heat, cough with expectoration of thin-yellow sputum, thirst
T: Red with thick yellow coating
P: Rolling, rapid
Ying (Nutritive) level - answer-Fever at night, dry mouth with no desire to drink, insomnia, mental
restlessness, aphasia, spots on skin, in sever cases coma (heat causing change to mental state)
T: Deep-red, no coat
P: Thready, rapid
Xue (Blood) level - answer-High fever, skin eruptions, vomiting of blood, epistaxis, blood in stools, blood
in urine, manic behavior, in severe cases convulsions
T: Deep red without coat
P: String-taut, rapid
, 6 Stages - answer-Tai Yang (greater yang)
Yang Ming (bright yang)
Shao Yang (lesser yang)
Tai Yin (Greater yin)
Shao Yin (lesser yin)
Jue Yin
Tai Yang (Greater Yang) - answer-Aversion to cold
Initial invasion of external cold through pores and insterstices of the skin
Headache and stiff neck, chills and fever, floating pulse
Gui Zhi Tang (sweat it out)
P: Floating
Yang Ming (Bright Yang) - answer-Aversion to Heat
Channel Syndrome:
Clear ST heat
4 Bigs (fever, sweat, thirst, pulse)
Red face, no aversion to cold
T: Red body w/ thick yellow coat
P: excess
Heat on the interior - purge through bowels (poop it out), clear ST heat
Organ Syndrome:
Drain fire from ST and intestines
4 Bigs
Constant fever, more pronounced in the afternoon, abdominal distention, constipation
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