NCBAHM practice questions — 10 free

Which stage is characterized with chills, cold feelings, listlesness, desire to sleep, diarrhea, pale urination, no thirst, pale tongue with white moss, and deep slow pulse?

• AShao Yin
• BTai YinTai Yin presents with abdominal fullness, vomiting, inability to eat, and spontaneous diarrhea with abdominal pain, seated in the Spleen. The Heart-Kidney Yang collapse sign of desire only to sleep belongs to Shao Yin.
• CJue YinJue Yin is defined by mixed cold and heat: wasting-thirst, Qi surging up against the Heart, burning pain in the chest, hunger without desire to eat. The stem shows pure deficient cold.
• DYang MingYang Ming is interior excess Heat, with high fever, profuse sweating, great thirst, or the fullness-dryness-hardness of Organ excess. Aversion to cold with a deep-slow pulse points the opposite way.

Which of the following manifestations are indicated of an exterior pattern?

• Aalternating chills and fever and thin, white tongue fur with a string-like pulseChills and fever that alternate rather than occur together, plus a wiry pulse, define a Shao Yang half-exterior half-interior pattern.
• Bsimultaneous chills and fever and thin, white tongue fur with a floating pulse
• Chigh fever, yellow tongue fur, and a rapid pulseHigh fever, yellow fur and a rapid pulse indicate interior repletion Heat.
• Dtidal fever, less tongue fur, and a fine, rapid pulseTidal fever, scanty fur and a fine rapid pulse indicate Yin deficiency with internal Heat, an interior deficiency pattern.

Which of the following patterns is marked by fever, red, swollen and painful gums, thirst with desire for cold drinks, a red tongue, and a rapid pulse?

• Areplete heat in the liverReplete heat in the Liver gives red eyes, rib-side pain, irritability and a wiry, rapid pulse, and does not govern the gums.
• Breplete heat in the lungsReplete heat in the Lungs gives cough and wheezing, thick yellow phlegm and flaring of the nostrils, with no channel connection to the gums.
• Creplete heat in the heartReplete heat in the Heart gives vexation with insomnia and sores of the mouth and tongue, the tongue being the sprout of the Heart, so the site is the tongue and not the gums.
• Dreplete heat in the stomach

Distance between following pairs of points is .5 ucn except

• ADu 15 - Du 16Yamen at 0.5 cun above the posterior hairline and Fengfu at 1 cun above it are 0.5 cun apart, which matches the stem.
• BHt 6 - Ht 7Yinxi at 0.5 cun above the wrist crease and Shenmen on the crease are 0.5 cun apart, which matches the stem.
• CLu 8 - Lu 9
• DRen 5 - Ren 6Shimen at 2 cun below the umbilicus and Qihai at 1.5 cun below are 0.5 cun apart, which matches the stem.
• ERen 6 - Ren 7Qihai at 1.5 cun below the umbilicus and Yinjiao at 1 cun below are 0.5 cun apart, which matches the stem.

DAN PI IS ADDED TO YIN-SUPPLEMENTING FORRMULAS, SUCH AS LIU WEI DI HUANG WAN BECAUSE:

• AIT CLEARS HEAT AND COOLS THE BLOOD,Cooling Blood alone is incomplete.
• BIT CLEARS VACUITY HEAT,Abating deficiency Heat alone is incomplete.
• CIT QUICKENS THE BLOOD AND DISPELS STASIS,Invigorating Blood and dispelling stasis alone is incomplete.
• DIT DRAINS AND ASCENDING LIVER FIRE,Draining ascending Liver fire alone is incomplete.
• EALL OF THE ABOVE

Which herb clears heat, functions as an anti-toxin, and can be used for strep throat, tonsillitis, and bacterial dysentery?

• Ajin yin hua
• Bqing haoQing Hao clears Empty Heat and interrupts malarial disorder. Resolving toxicity in sore throat and hot dysentery is outside its strengths.
• Csheng di huangSheng Di Huang clears Heat, cools the Blood and nourishes Yin, with no toxin-resolving or dysentery-treating action.
• Dbo heBo He disperses Wind-Heat and benefits the throat, and it lacks the power to clear Heat toxin or treat bloody dysentery from Heat toxin.

gua lou (radix trichosanthis) is contraindicated with

• Acough due to coldCough from Cold Phlegm or Damp-Phlegm falls under cautions, and the explicit contraindication listed in the texts centers on Spleen deficiency with loose stool; Gua Lou governs cough from Phlegm-Heat, so cough due to cold corresponds less directly than B to its liability of slickening the intestines and injuring the Middle.
• Bdiarrhea due to deficiency and weakness of Spleen and Stomach
• Cthere are no contraindications listed for this herbGua Lou is not free of contraindications, since it is avoided in deficiency Cold with loose stool and is incompatible with the Wu Tou group.
• DpregnancyGua Lou is not listed among the substances contraindicated in pregnancy, which are the drastic purgatives, Blood-breaking substances and toxic agents.

Which of the following procedures is required to confirm the diagnosis of endometriosis?

• ACAT scanCT is insensitive to small peritoneal implants and shows only larger cysts.
• BSonographySonography can suggest an ovarian endometrioma but misses peritoneal lesions and provides no tissue.
• CLaparoscopy
• DHormonal testingHormonal testing lacks specificity, and levels can be entirely normal.

Clopidogrel bisulfate (Plavix®) is a platelet aggregation inhibitor that has been shown to be effective in the prevention of

• AMyocardial infarctionMyocardial infarction alone covers only part of the approved indications.
• BPeripheral artery diseasePeripheral artery disease alone covers only part of the approved indications.
• CCerebrovascular accidentCerebrovascular accident alone covers only part of the approved indications.
• DAll of the above

In addition to the uterus, other target organs of oxytocin (Pitocin®) include

• AVaginaThe vagina is not a classic oxytocin target organ.
• BOvariesThe ovaries respond to FSH and LH rather than to oxytocin.
• CFallopian tubesThe fallopian tubes are not a classic oxytocin target organ.
• DMammary glands