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Acupuncture Board Practice Questions
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Five shu-points that have a greater action on disorders along the whole course of
the channel - ANSWER✔✔Ying - Spring points


Location of the extra point that pacifies wind and calms shen, benefits the nose,
and activates the channel and alleviates pain - ANSWER✔✔Yin Tang - located at
the midpoint between the medial extremities of the eyebrows


The pinyin name for a Hollow, Scallion Stalk, or Green Onion refers pulse -
ANSWER✔✔Kou Mai


Palpitation of a Hollow Pulse - ANSWER✔✔Felt at the superficial level but when
one presses to find the middle level the pulse is not there but with more pressure it
is felt at the deep level; the kou mai is empty in the middle position


Indication of a Hollow Pulse - ANSWER✔✔Kou mai (hollow pulse) indicates
hemorrhage or a forthcoming hemorrahge (hollow-rapid)


Pinyin for a thready, fine, or thin pulse - ANSWER✔✔Xi mai


This pulse indicates deficient blood or dampness with severe deficient qi; CAM
writes that the xi mai (thready pulse) feels like a fine thread that is distinct and
clear; it indicates a deficiency of qi and blood; it often manifests in patients with
weak body constitutions in a prolonged disease arising from deficiency of blood
and yin; there is insufficient yin and blood to fill the blood vessels and activate
blood circulation - Foundations of Chinese Medicine, Maciocia, 2015, page 386;
CAM, 3rd Edition, page 290

, Using Lachman's Test for grading knee instability you find a 5-10 mm movement.
What is this grade? - ANSWER✔✔2+


Source: he grading for knee instability is as follows: 1+ (mild): 5 mm or less; 2+
(moderate): 5-10 mm; 3+ (serious): more than 10 mm. - Dutton's Orthopaedic
Examination, Evaluation and Intervention, 3rd Edition, 2012, page 872


Pinyin name for a Wiry, String-taut, Stringy, or Bowstring pulse -
ANSWER✔✔Xian mai


Source: this xian mai (wiry pulse) feels like a taut guitar string; it is thinner, more
taut, and harder than the jin mai pulse (tight pulse); you can feel the wiry pulse
strike the fingers; this pulse indicates a liver pattern, pain, or phlegm; CAM writes
that a xian mai (string-taut pulse) feels taut, straight, and long; it has the feeling
like the string of a violin; it indicates a shaayang disorder, pain, phlegm, or fluid
retention; in a liver/gall blader disorder, the liver qi tightens the blood vessels; in
pain the tightness arises in the channels and vessels; in phlegm or fluid retention
the tightness arises from a dysfunction of qi transportation - Foundations of
Chinese Medicine, Maciocia, 2015, page 386; CAM, 3rd Edition, page 290


Problem of a 55 year-old female is taking Lamisil (terbinafine) -
ANSWER✔✔Fungal infection


Source: Lamisil (terbinafine) is an antifungal


Infrared therapy is contraindicated in - ANSWER✔✔Cardiovascular insufficiency

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