NBCE Acupuncture Exam Questions and Answers 2025 Updated

NBCE Acupuncture Exam Questions and Answers 2025 Updated ._____ child in case of excess /ANSWER/sedate ._____ is the commaden of blood /ANSWER/Qi .______ if the mother of Qi /ANSWER/Blood .______ mother organ in case of deficiency /ANSWER/Tonify ._______ deficiency may causes deafness/tinnitus /ANSWER/Kidney .________ is a yin pathogenic factor and it injures Yang /ANSWER/Phlegm ._________ controls the descending of Qi /ANSWER/Stomach ___(2)___ governs Qi /ANSWER/(1)Heart (2)Lungs .___(1)___ makes blood ___(2)___ stores blood /ANSWER/(1) spleen (2) liver .16 questions for all patients to establish pattern(s). /ANSWER/(1)Pain (9)Sleep (2)Food/Taste (10)Sweating (3)Stools/Urine (11)Ears and Eyes (4)Thirst (12)Cold, heat, fever (5)Energy levels (13)Emotional symptoms (6)Head, face, body (14)Sexual symptoms (7)Chest and abdomen(15)Womens symptoms (8)Limbs (16)Children's Symptoms .2 types of internal organs /ANSWER/Yin (zang) - store vital substances Yang (fu) - Transform food/drink into Qi or blood .4 Fundamental movements of Qi and correspondence to yin/yang /ANSWER/Ascending A yang movement Descending Yin Exiting Yang Entering Yin .4 levels summed up /ANSWER/defensive Qi: aversion to cold and fever Qi: no aversion to cold, fever, feeling of heat Nutritive Qi: mental changes, fever at night Blood: fever at night, bleeding, macules, internal wind .5 Branches of the penetrating vessel /ANSWER/Internal branch Abdominal Branch Head Branch Spinal Branch Descending Branch .5 transporting points relation to seasons /ANSWER/well points winter spring points spring stream points summer river points late summer sea points autumn .5 transporting points use per spiritual axis /ANSWER/well points for yin organs spring points when there is a change in complexion color stream points intermittent symptoms river points when voice is affected sea points stomach diseases .5 vital substances /ANSWER/Qi Blood Essence (Jing) Body fluids Mind (shen) .A deficiency of _____________ causes chronic tiredness /ANSWER/Spleen-Qi .A full condition is characterized by ___(1)___ and empty condition is characterized by ___(2)___ /ANSWER/(1) Presence of a pathogenic factor (2) Deficiency of upright Qi .Accumulation(Xi) points /ANSWER/all are located between the elbows and fingers or knees and toes used for acute conditions used to stop pain used to stop bleeding (especially Yin) .All phlegm patterns of the lungs include /ANSWER/cough with expectorartion of sputum .All warm disease are caused by what /ANSWER/invasion of wind heat .Areas influenced by extraordinary vessels /ANSWER/Directing Vessel chest/abdomen Governing Vessel back/spine Penetrating Vessel abdomen/chest Girdle Vessel waist Yin Linking Vessel abdomen/sides of body Yang Linking Vessel Head Yin Stepping Vessel inner aspect of leg, eyes Yang Stepping Vessel outer aspect of leg, eyes .Back transporting vs Front collecting points /ANSWER/Back transporting - for yin diseases,cold syndromes, chronic disease Front collecting - for yang diseases, heat syndromes, acute diseases .Back Transporting(shu) points are always located on which channel /ANSWER/Bladder .Back Transporting(shu) points are always used in treating /ANSWER/chronic disease .Balancing Organs according to the 5 elements /ANSWER/GB-Spleen Small Intestine - Lung Stomach - Kidney Large Intestine - Liver Bladder - Heart .Bladder Channel Diagnostic info /ANSWER/fever, aversion to cold, headache, stiff neck, lower back pain, pain in eyes Ass'd with runny nose, nosebleed (empty) stuffy nose, back/neck/shoulder ache (full) Pain/stiffness along little toe, foot, heel, knee, spine, neck, axilla