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What are the symptoms that differentiate Exterior from Interior Syndrome?
- Exterior: Fever /w aversion
- Interior: Fever or aversion
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What are the symptoms that differentiate Wind Cold from Wind Heat?
- Wind-Cold: No sweat, Tai Yang headache, dilute white sputum, white coating, tense pulse
- Wind-Heat: Sweat, Yang Ming headache, yellow sticky sputum, yellow coating, rapid pulse
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Which acupoints Dispel Wind / contain Wind in their name?
- DU-16: Palace of Wind (Feng Fu)
- GB-20: Wind Pool (Feng Chi)
- BL-12: Wind Gate (Feng Men)
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Which points Disperse the Lung and Release the Exterior?
- LU-7 & LI-4
- Reducing /w moxa
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What is the needling direction of GB-20?
- Toward the opposite inner canthus
- Toward tip of nose
- Toward the mouth
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What is the needling direction of GB-20 when used to relieve occipital headache and nasal obstruction due to wind-cold attack?
Oblique towards nose & mouth /w moxa
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What is the best point for reducing body temperature?
DU-14
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What is the best point for sore throat?
LU-10
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What is the best points in the prevention of influenza?
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Which Zang organs are related to chronic cough?
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What is the needle technique of CV-22 for severe cough with productive sputum?
- Tap needle in first at 45°
- Curve and go in
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What is the key point regarding the TCM pathogenesis of asthma?
- Constitutional tendency of phelgm
- due to climate, diet, emotions, overstrain
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What does the term Xiao Chuan mean?
- Xiao - wheezing
- Chuan - dyspnea
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Which Zang organs are related to Asthma?
- LU
- SP
- KI (more for dyspnea)
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If a patient cannot lie flat on their back to sleep at night (requiring many pillows), then it is a sign of what?
Kidney Deficiency
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What is the best point for asthma especially for relieving wheezing?
Ding Chuan (.5 cun lateral to DU-14)
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What is the importance of CV-17 in treating asthma?
- Hui-Meeting point of Qi
- Point of Sea of Qi
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What point to treat persistent asthma?
DU-12 (send to hospital immediately)
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What Auricular point for treating asthma?
- Apex of Antitragus (Ping Chuan)
- Adrenal
- Trachea
- Subcortex
- Sympathetic
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In Modern Research of Asthma, which point was found to improve lung function by affecting the level of plasma cAMP and hydrocortisone?
LU-10
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What are the main symptoms associated with Upper Respiratory Infection related to internal excessive syndrome in TCM?
- High Fever
- Chest Pain
- Constipation
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Which points, with the use of the bleeding method, treat LU Heat?
DU-13, 14
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Using the theory of combining Yuan-Source with Luo-Connecting points, which point are used to treat LU Heat?
LU-9 & LI-6
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What is the Chinese term for Allergic Rhinitis?
- Bi Jiu
- *Bi Yuan - polyps / chronic inflammation
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What is TCM Etiology of Allergic Rhinitis?
LU Qi↓ → Wei Qi↓ → Wind-Cold invasion → fluid retention
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What are the common patterns of Allergic Rhinitis?
- LU Qi Def w/ Wind-Cold affection
- Heat Retention in the LU & ST meridians
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Which points are commonly used to treat nasal problems?
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What is an easy way to locate DU-23 (esp. in the case of patients with unusual or receding hair lines)?
Midpoint of Yin Tang & DU-20
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What is the needle technique of LI-20 & Bi Tong?
- Through-needle starting at LI-20
- 30° towards the nose
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What are Auricular points for the treatment of allergy?
- Inner Nose (for post nasal drip)
- Shen Men
- Endocrine
- Lung
- Wind Stream (a.k.a. Allergic)
- Spleen
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What is the TCM Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis?
- Water Exhaustion, Earth Impairment, Metal Erosion
- 水枯土崩金蝕
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What is the TCM pathogenesis of Bronchiectasis?
- A deficiency complicated by excessive syndrome
- Lung Qi↓ w/ EPF Phlegm
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What is the point to treat Bronchiectasis?
LU-5
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How do you determine whether Aphonia is "Metal Fullness" (金實無聲) or "Metal Broken" (金碎不鳴)
- Metal Fullness - Excess - due to EPF / emotional, short duration
- Metal Broken - Deficiency - due to Yin Def / overstrain of vocal cords, long duration
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What are the patterns for "Metal Fullness" (金實無聲)?
- Wind-Cold restriction and Lung's inability to disperse
- Phlegm-Heat in the LU
- Qi Stagnation
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What is the pattern for "Metal Broken" (金碎不鳴)?
LU & KI Def
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What is the needle technique of SI-17 for the treatment of Aphonia?
- 45° towards tongue root
- *especially for tonsillitis / laryngitis
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What are the most important points for Acute Respiratory Failure?
DU-25, 26
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