Channel Sign Symptoms.txt

18) A 26 year old female patient comes to you hoping you can help her. She has been having trouble conceiving and her medical doctor has confirmed that she is infertile. She's had irregular menses her entire life and has never had a regular period. During the intake she confirms that she has had asthma her entire life, but is confused because she doesn't understand what that has to do with her infertility. You explain that this is confirming that she has a dysfunction with which one of the eight extra meridians?

A) The Belt Vessel
B) The Yin Heel Vessel
C) The Conception Vessel
D) Thoroughfare Vessel

14) A patient comes to you for help. They are experiencing pain in the back, shoulder, supraclavicular fossa, a sensation of fullness in the chest, congested and sore throat, hemoptysis, asthmatic breathing, and cough. Which one of the following channels is affected?

A) Hand Yangming
B) Hand Shaoyang
C) Foot Jueyin
D) Hand Taiyin

151) A patient comes to you for help. They've been dealing with a ringing in their ears. This all started around the same time as they started developing abdominal distension, urinary pain, and edema. They've also been having pain on the outside of their eyes and a congested and sore throat. Which one of the following channels is affected?

A) Hand Yangming
B) Foot Jueyin
C) Foot Taiyang
D) Hand Shaoyang

67) A patient has depressive and manic mental disorders, muscular atrophy and weakness in the lower leg, congested and sore throat, and sudden hoarseness of the voice. Which one of the following channels is affected?

A) Collateral of the Hand Yangming
B) Collateral of the Foot Yangming
C) Collateral of the Hand Shaoyin
D) Collateral of the Hand Taiyin

50) A patient has fullness in the chest and diaphragm and aphasia. Which one of the following channels is affected?

A) Collateral of the Foot Taiyin
B) Collateral of the Hand Taiyin
C) Collateral of the Hand Yangming
D) Collateral of the Hand Shaoyin

70) A patient has hypochondriac pain and pain along the lateral aspect of the hypochondrium. Which two channels are affected?

A) Hand Shaoyin, Foot Shaoyang
B) Foot Jueyin, Hand Shaoyang
C) Foot Jueyin, Foot Shaoyang
D) Foot Shaoyin, Hand Shaoyang

98) A patient is taking Coumadin (Warfarin sodium) and they develop priapism. Which one of the following channels is affected?

A) Yang Qiao Channel
B) Yin Qiao Channel
C) Collateral of the Foot Jueyin
D) Collateral of the Foot Shaoyang

1) A patient presents with dryness of the tongue. If this is due to a channel disorder what are the additional signs and symptoms of the channel that is affected?

A) Low back pain, fullness in the chest, pain in the lower abdomen, hernia, vertical headache, hiccups, enuresis, dysuria, and mental disturbance.
B) Cardiac pain, palpitations, hypochondriac pain, insomnia, night sweating, pain in the medial aspect of the upper arm, and heat sensation in the palms.
C) Belching, vomiting, epigastric pain, abdominal distension, loose stools, jaundice, heaviness of the body, lassitude, and swelling and coldness in the medial aspect of the thigh and knee.
D) Enuresis, frequent urination, nocturnal emission, impotence, irregular menstruation, asthmatic breathing, hemoptysis, congested and sore throat, edema, pain in the lumbar region, pain in the posterior aspect of the thigh, weakness of the lower limbs, and heat sensation in the soles.

87) A patient presents with insomnia. If this is due to a channel disorder, what are the additional signs and symptoms of the channel that is affected?

A) Headache, pain in the outer canthus, pain in the jaw, blurring of vision, bitter taste in the mouth, swelling and pain in the supraclavicular fosse, pain in the maxilla, and pain along the lateral aspect of the chest, hypochondrium, thigh, and lower limbs.
B) Redness and pain in the inner canthus, pain in the back and lumbar region, aversion of the foot and spasm of the lower limbs, and epilepsy.
C) Abdominal distension, edema, dysuria, deafness, tinnitus, pain in the outer canthus, swelling of the cheeks, congested and sore throat, and pain in the retroauricular region, shoulder, and lateral aspect of the arm and shoulder.
D) Stiffness and pain in the spinal column, opisthotonos, headache, shaking, vertigo, mental disorders, febrile diseases, colic, constipation, enuresis, hemorrhoids, and functional infertility.

2) A patient presents with nasal obstruction, watery nasal discharge, headache, pain in the back and epistaxis. Which one of the following collateral channels is affected?

A) Foot Taiyang
B) Foot Shaoyin
C) Hand Taiyang
D) Hand Taiyin

82) A patient presents with paralysis of the lower limbs. If this is due to a channel disorder, which one of the following channels is affected?

A) Collateral of the Foot Taiyang
B) Primary Foot Shaoyang meridian
C) Collateral of Foot Shaoyang
D) Collateral of the Foot Yangming

100) A patient presents with spastic or flaccid cubital joints, warts on the skin, and Cholera with vomiting and diarrhea. All of the following collateral channels are affected except:

A) Foot Taiyin
B) Hand Taiyang
C) Foot Yangming
D) Hand Shaoyang

188) All of the following are symptoms of the Collateral of the Foot Shaoyang except:

A) Paralysis of the lower limbs
B) Coldness in the foot
C) Inability to stand erect
D) Weakness of the joints

29) All of the following Extra Channels have Epilepsy as a sign EXCEPT:

A) The Yang Link Vessel
B) The Yin Heel Vessel
C) The Governor Vessel
D) The Yang Heel Vessel

158) All of the following extra channels have leukorrhea as an associated sign except:

A) Dai Vessel
B) Yin Qiao
C) Yin Wei
D) Chong Vessel

68) All of the following signs and symptoms are part of the Belt Vessel EXCEPT:

A) Leukorrhea
B) Enuresis
C) Distension and fullness in the abdomen
D) Weakness of the lumbar region

96) All of the following statements about Collateral channels are true except:

A) Depressive and manic mental disorders, muscular atrophy and weakness in the lower leg, congested and sore throat, and sudden hoarseness of voice are signs and symptoms of the collateral of Hand Shaoyang.
B) Toothache, deafness, a cold sensation in the teeth, and a stifling sensation in the chest and diaphragm are signs and symptoms of the collateral of Hand Yangming.
C) Retention of urine, lumbago, mental restlessness and a stifling sensation in the chest are signs and symptoms of the collateral of Foot Shaoyin.
D) Weakness of joints, muscular atrophy and motor impairment of the elbow, and warts on the skin are signs and symptoms of the collateral of Hand Taiyang.

52) All of the following statements are true except:

A) The primary channel that has belching, vomiting, epigastric pain, abdominal distension, loose stools, jaundice, heaviness of the body, and lassitude has two branches in addition to its main channel
B) The primary channel that has lacrimation when exposed to wind, nasal obstruction, rhinorrhea, headache, malaria, enuresis, retention of urine, epistaxis, and manic and depressive mental disorders has three branches in addition to its main channel.
C) The primary channel that has a congested and sore throat, pain in the neck, borborygmus, abdominal pain, diarrhea, dysentery, and epistaxis has two branches in addition to its main channel.
D) The primary channel that has borborygmus, abdominal distension, edema, epigastric pain, vomiting, hunger, epistaxis, deviation of the mouth, and congested and sore throat has five branches in addition to its main channel.

51) Fullness in the abdomen, stomachache, pain and distension in the waist are associated with which group of extra channels?

A) Dai, Yin Wei, and Yang Wei
B) Dai, Yin Qiao, and Yang Wei
C) Dai, Yang Qiao and Yin Wei
D) Dai, Yin Qiao, and Yang Qiao

18) How many branches does the channel with cardiac pain, palpitations, hypochondriac pain, insomnia, night sweating, dryness of the throat, pain in the medial aspect of the upper arm and a heat sensation in the palms as symptoms have?

A) One Branch
B) Two Branches
C) Three Branches
D) Four Branches

15) Tightness and spasm of the muscle along the medial aspect of the lower leg while those along the lateral aspect are flaccid or atrophied is a sign for which one of the following channels?

A) Yin Wei
B) Yang Qiao
C) Yang Wei
D) Yin Qiao

46) The Extra Meridian that has tightness and spasm of the muscle along the medial aspect of the lower leg while those along the lateral aspect are flaccid or atrophied has which one of the following symptoms associated with it?

A) Cardiac Pain
B) Chills and Fever
C) Lethargy
D) Insomnia

20) The Luo-Connecting point of which one of the following channels treats epistaxis, toothache, redness of the eye, tinnitus, deafness, edema, and aching of the hand and arm?

A) Foot Taiyin
B) Foot Yangming
C) Hand Yangming
D) Hand Taiyin

29) Which one of the following groups of signs and symptoms are associated with the Conception Vessel?

A) Functional infertility, hemorrhoids, enuresis, constipation, colic, febrile diseases, mental disorders, vertigo, shaking, heavy sensation in the head, and stiffness and pain along the spinal column
B) Colic, other disorders of the urogenital system, infertility, irregular menstruation, and leukorrhea.
C) Weakness or motor impairment of the lower limb, irregular menstruation, leukorrhea, pain in the lumbar region, and fullness in the abdomen.
D) Abdominal pain, colic, gynecological disorders, male sexual irregularities: impotence.

39) Which one of the following groups of signs and symptoms are associated with the Yin Wei/Yin Link Vessel?

A) Epilepsy, aversion of the foot and spasm of the lower limbs, pain in the back and lumbar region, redness and pain in the inner canthus, and insomnia
B) Epilepsy, inversion of the foot, spasm of the lower limbs, pain in the lumbar and hip regions referring to the pubic region, pain in the lower abdomen, and lethargy
C) Vertigo, muscular fatigue, stiffness, and pain, pain and distension in the waist, fever, and chills
D) Interior syndromes, chest pain, cardiac pain, and stomach ache

89) Which one of the following is an additional sign for the Extra Meridian that has irregular menstruation, infertility, and asthmatic breathing associated with it?

A) Retention of Urine
B) Prolapsed of the Uterus
C) Spasm and pain in the abdomen
D) Leukorrhea

14) Which one of the following of the Eight Extra Meridians has retention of urine associated with it?

A) Dai Meridian
B) Du Meridian
C) Chong Meridian
D) Ren Meridian