Quiz 30 Flashcards

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  1. A 40-year-old female patient suffered from severe fever and sweating for one week. The symptoms are getting better but she now is losing too much weight even though her appetite is increased. Her fever is now worse at night with morning coolness. Which of the following formulas is the best to treat this case?
    a. Qing Hao Bie Jia Tang
    b. Long Dan Xie Gan Tang
    c. Huang Lian Jie Du Tang
    d. Ma Huang Tang
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  1. A 40-year-old female patient suffered from severe fever and sweating for one week. The symptoms are getting better but she now is losing too much weight even though her appetite is increased. Her fever is now worse at night with morning coolness. Which of the following formulas is the best to treat this case?
    a. Qing Hao Bie Jia Tang: This is heat smoldering in the yin regions of the body. Night Fever and Morning Coolness are the main indications for this formula. Pathogenic Heat gets stuck in the Ying Level.
    b. Long Dan Xie Gan Tang
    c. Huang Lian Jie Du Tang
    d. Ma Huang Tang
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  1. What kind of herb should be added or omitted from Chai Ge Jie Ji Tang for coughing of viscous sputum?
    a. Add Zhi Mu and Tian Hua Fen
    b. Add Gua Lou Pi and Zhe Bei Mu
    c. Omit Qiang Huo and Bai Zhi
    d. Substitute Huang Qi with Ma Huang
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  1. What kind of herb should be added or omitted from Chai Ge Jie Ji Tang for coughing of viscous sputum?
    a. Add Zhi Mu and Tian Hua Fen
    b. Add Gua Lou Pi and Zhe Bei Mu: This is the Answer
    c. Omit Qiang Huo and Bai Zhi
    d. Substitute Huang Qi with Ma Huang
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  1. Which of the following herbs has functions to clear heat and dissipate nodules?
    a. Zhe Bei Mu
    b. Zhu Ru
    c. Qian Hu
    d. Tian Hua Fen
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  1. Which of the following herbs has functions to clear heat and dissipate nodules?
    a. Zhe Bei Mu: Cold, drains heat, transforms phlegm heat, releases constraint, dissipates nodules, especially in the neck and breast. Also for ACUTE Cough. This is the Answer
    b. Zhu Ru: Clear heat, dissolve phlegm, clear phlegm fire, clear Stomach Heat
    c. Qian Hu: direct Qi downward, expel phlegm and wind heat
    d. Tian Hua Fen: Clear Lung heat, moisten dryness, clear heat, detoxify, expel pus
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  1. Which herb is the best to treat spasms in the extremities and abdominal Pain?
    a. Qiang Huo
    b. Du Huo
    c. Xi Xin
    d. Bai Shao
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  1. Which herb is the best to treat spasms in the extremities and abdominal Pain?
    a. Qiang Huo
    b. Du Huo
    c. Xi Xin
    d. Bai Shao: This is the Answer
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  1. Which herb should be cooked prior to adding other ingredients to the decoction?
    a. Xing Ren
    b. Dang Gui
    c. Mu Li
    d. Shu Di Huang
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  1. Which herb should be cooked prior to adding other ingredients to the decoction?
    a. Xing Ren
    b. Dang Gui
    c. Mu Li: Cook for 20-30 minutes before adding other herbs
    d. Shu Di Huang
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  1. Which of the following herbs reduces food stagnation and may injure the teeth and bones when excessively used?
    a. Da Fu Pi
    b. Hou Po
    c. Zhi Shi
    d. Mu Gua
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  1. Which of the following herbs reduces food stagnation and may injure the teeth and bones when excessively used?
    a. Da Fu Pi
    b. Hou Po
    c. Zhi Shi
    d. Mu Gua: Reduces food stagnation; Contraindicated for exterior disorders - good for calf cramping
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  1. All of the following herbs can vent rashes except?
    a. Chan Tui
    b. Niu Bang Zi
    c. Ge Gen
    d. Chai Hu
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  1. All of the following herbs can vent rashes except?
    a. Chan Tui
    b. Niu Bang Zi
    c. Ge Gen
    d. Chai Hu: resolve Shao Yang disorders and reduce fever. Soothe Liver Qi
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  1. A teenage boy visited the clinic with his mom for coughing and headache which he has had for the last two weeks. The headache is severe and the pain is alleviated with drugs and acupuncture treatment. He also complains of dry nose, fever, irritability and orbital pain. What is the appropriate formula for this case?
    a. Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang
    b. Chai Ge Jie Ji Tang
    c. Bai Hu Tang
    d. Huang Lian Jie Du Tang
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  1. A teenage boy visited the clinic with his mom for coughing and headache which he has had for the last two weeks. The headache is severe and the pain is alleviated with drugs and acupuncture treatment. He also complains of dry nose, fever, irritability and orbital pain. What is the appropriate formula for this case?
    a. Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang
    b. Chai Ge Jie Ji Tang: Exterior wind cold transferring from the Tai Yang to Yang Ming Stage. (The key presentation is – Increasing fever and decreasing chills accompanied by headache, stiffness of the extremities, ORBITAL AND EYE PAIN, DRY NASAL PASSAGE, IRRITABILITY Thin YELLOW Tongue coating and a FLOATING slightly flooding Pulse
    c. Bai Hu Tang
    d. Huang Lian Jie Du Tang
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  1. Which herb should be avoided with vinegar?
    a. Fu Ling
    b. Qin Jiao
    c. Bei Mu
    d. Gan Cao
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  1. Which herb should be avoided with vinegar?
    a. Fu Ling: This is the Answer
    b. Qin Jiao
    c. Bei Mu
    d. Gan Cao
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  1. Which herb is the best for a headache due to an exterior syndrome and is contraindicated for hypertension due to liver yang rising?
    a. Chuan Xiong
    b. Qiang Huo
    c. Chai Hu
    d. Ge Gen
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  1. Which herb is the best for a headache due to an exterior syndrome and is contraindicated for hypertension due to liver yang rising?
    a. Chuan Xiong: Contraindicated in cases of Yin Xu with Heat signs, headaches due to ascendant liver yang, Qi Xu or excessive menstrual bleeding. Vomiting and dizziness may occur from over dosage.
    b. Qiang Huo
    c. Chai Hu
    d. Ge Gen
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  1. A 37-year-old female patient, Becky, visited the clinic for infertility. She has been married for almost 10 years now and she had 3 miscarriages. She tried artificial insemination several times but since the last miscarriage, she hasn’t had a single implantation. After the first miscarriage, her period became irregular, scanty, light colored with clots and painful. The pain is alleviated by pressure and warmth. She has a pale complexion, a thin tongue body and orange colored sides. Which of the following formulas best suites the case?
    a. Si Wu Tang
    b. Tao He Cheng Qi Tang
    c. Wen Jing Tang
    d. Gui Zhi Fu Ling Wan
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  1. A 37-year-old female patient, Becky, visited the clinic for infertility. She has been married for almost 10 years now and she had 3 miscarriages. She tried artificial insemination several times but since the last miscarriage, she hasn’t had a single implantation. After the first miscarriage, her period became irregular, scanty, light colored with clots and painful. The pain is alleviated by pressure and warmth. She has a pale complexion, a thin tongue body and orange colored sides. Which of the following formulas best suites the case?
    a. Si Wu Tang: Blood Xu with Xue Yu
    b. Tao He Cheng Qi Tang
    c. Wen Jing Tang
    d. Gui Zhi Fu Ling Wan
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  1. What are the chief herbs in Ban Xia Bai Zhu Tian Ma Tang?
    a. Ban Xia, Bai Zhu
    b. Tian Ma, Bai Zhu
    c. Ban Xia, Tian Ma
    d. Chen Pi, Bai Zhu
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  1. What are the chief herbs in Ban Xia Bai Zhu Tian Ma Tang?
    a. Ban Xia, Bai Zhu
    b. Tian Ma, Bai Zhu
    c. Ban Xia, Tian Ma: Bai Zhu is the Deputy
    d. Chen Pi, Bai Zhu
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  1. Which of the following gives, respectively, the organ that produces phlegm; and the organ that contains phlegm?
    a. LU; SP
    b. SP; LU
    c. ST; LU
    d. LU: ST
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  1. Which of the following gives, respectively, the organ that produces phlegm; and the organ that contains phlegm?
    a. LU; SP
    b. SP; LU: This is the Answer
    c. ST; LU
    d. LU: ST
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  1. Which of the following formulas can treat Yang Ming stage symptoms?
    a. Bai Hu Tang
    b. Li Zhong Wan
    c. Gui Zhi Tang
    d. Xiao Chai Hu Tang
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  1. Which of the following formulas can treat Yang Ming stage symptoms?
    a. Bai Hu Tang: This is the Answer
    b. Li Zhong Wan
    c. Gui Zhi Tang
    d. Xiao Chai Hu Tang
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  1. What are the actions of Huang Lian Jie Du Tang?
    a. Releases wind heat
    b. Drains fire and relieves toxicity
    c. Clears damp heat from the liver and gall bladder
    d. Clears summer heat
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  1. What are the actions of Huang Lian Jie Du Tang?
    a. Releases wind heat
    b. Drains fire and relieves toxicity: This is the Answer
    c. Clears damp heat from the liver and gall bladder
    d. Clears summer heat
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  1. What are the actions of Huang Qi?
    a. Clears damp heat from the upper burner
    b. Clears toxic heat from the lung
    c. Tonifies the spleen, augments the qi, raises the qi, stabilizes the exterior
    d. Strongly tonifies the basal qi, strengthens the spleen and stomach, generates fluids, calms the spirit
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  1. What are the actions of Huang Qi?
    a. Clears damp heat from the upper burner
    b. Clears toxic heat from the lung
    c. Tonifies the spleen, augments the qi, raises the qi, stabilizes the exterior: This is the Answer
    d. Strongly tonifies the basal qi, strengthens the spleen and stomach, generates fluids, calms the spirit
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  1. What are the ingredients of Ban Xia Hou Po Tang?
    a. Ban Xia, Hou Po, Sheng Jiang, Da Zao
    b. Ban Xia, Hou Po, Fu Ling, Gan Cao
    c. Ban Xia, Hou Po, Gua Lou, Fu Ling, Gan Cao
    d. Ban Xia, Hou Po, Sheng Jiang, Fu Ling, Zi Su Ye
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  1. What are the ingredients of Ban Xia Hou Po Tang?
    a. Ban Xia, Hou Po, Sheng Jiang, Da Zao
    b. Ban Xia, Hou Po, Fu Ling, Gan Cao
    c. Ban Xia, Hou Po, Gua Lou, Fu Ling, Gan Cao
    d. Ban Xia, Hou Po, Sheng Jiang, Fu Ling, Zi Su Ye: This is the Answer
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  1. Which of the following formulas should be used to treat a patient with alternating chills and fever, a bitter taste in the mouth, and alternating burning diarrhea and constipation?
    a. Bai Hu Tang
    b. Da Chai Hu Tang
    c. Xiao Chai Hu Tang
    d. Xiao Chai Hu Tang
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  1. Which of the following formulas should be used to treat a patient with alternating chills and fever, a bitter taste in the mouth, and alternating burning diarrhea and constipation?
    a. Bai Hu Tang
    b. Da Chai Hu Tang: Harmonizes and releases the lesser yang and drains internal clumping due to heat. (Use for combined shaoyang and yangming stage illness with alternating fever and chills, costal or epigastric pain, nausea and vomiting, constipation and irritability. Useful in acute gastroenteritis, gastrointestinal flue, acute cholecystitis or pancreatitis, hepatitis, chronic gallbladder congestion and the fever stage of malaria.
    c. Xiao Chai Hu Tang
    d. Xiao Chai Hu Tang
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  1. What are the ingredients of Shao Yao Gan Cao Tang?
    a. Bai Shao and Zhi Gan Cao
    b. Bai Zhu and Zhi Gan Cao
    c. Dang Gui and Zhi Gan Cao
    d. Shan Yao and Zhi Gan Cao
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  1. What are the ingredients of Shao Yao Gan Cao Tang?
    a. Bai Shao and Zhi Gan Cao: Actions: Softens the Liver, moderates painful spasms, and alleviated pain.
    b. Bai Zhu and Zhi Gan Cao
    c. Dang Gui and Zhi Gan Cao
    d. Shan Yao and Zhi Gan Cao
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  1. Ge Xia Zhu Yu Tang treats which part of blood stasis?
    a. Above the diaphragm
    b. Below the diaphragm
    c. In the lower Jiao
    d. In the head, face and upper body
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  1. Ge Xia Zhu Yu Tang treats which part of blood stasis?
    a. Above the diaphragm
    b. Below the diaphragm: Used to treat Xue Yu and Liver Qi Yu causing masses below the diaphragm: Masses under the diaphragm caused by blood stasis, palpable abdominal masses with fixed pain, or visible abdominal masses when lying down, chronic diarrhea
    c. In the lower Jiao
    d. In the head, face and upper body

d. In the head, face and upper body

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  1. All of the following herbs are contraindicated for pregnancy except?
    a. Ai Ye
    b. San Qi
    c. Tao Ren
    d. Niu Xi
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  1. All of the following herbs are contraindicated for pregnancy except?
    a. Ai Ye: Use with caution in cases of heat in the blood or yin Xu
    b. San Qi
    c. Tao Ren
    d. Niu Xi
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  1. What is the proper way to decoct Che Qian Zi?
    a. Decocted first
    b. Decocted in gauze
    c. Added near the end
    d. Dissolved in the strained decoction
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  1. What is the proper way to decoct Che Qian Zi?
    a. Decocted first
    b. Decocted in gauze: Wrap in cheesecloth during decoction (These are Plantago Seeds in the Drain Dampness Category) it enters the Bladder, Kidney, Liver and Lung – it promotes urination and is in the formula Ba Zheng San (9-15g)
    c. Added near the end
    d. Dissolved in the strained decoction
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  1. What do you add to Xiao Yao San if more heat is present, and which makes the formula Jia Wei Xiao Yao San?
    a. Zhi Zi and Mu Dan Pi
    b. Zhi Zi and Shi Gao
    c. Shi Gao and Zhi Mu
    d. Zhi Mu and Di Gu Pi
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  1. What do you add to Xiao Yao San if more heat is present, and which makes the formula Jia Wei Xiao Yao San?
    a. Zhi Zi and Mu Dan Pi: This is the Answer
    b. Zhi Zi and Shi Gao
    c. Shi Gao and Zhi Mu
    d. Zhi Mu and Di Gu Pi
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  1. Xiao Qing Long Tang treats which of the following?
    a. External wind cold with internal heat
    b. External wind cold with internal phlegm fluids accumulation
    c. External wind cold with internal damp heat
    d. External wind cold with internal Qi stagnation
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  1. Xiao Qing Long Tang treats which of the following?
    a. External wind cold with internal heat
    b. External wind cold with internal phlegm fluids accumulation: Tongue: Moist Pulse: Floating and Tight – difficulty breathing when lying down
    c. External wind cold with internal damp heat
    d. External wind cold with internal Qi stagnation
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  1. Ke Xue Fang can treat hemoptysis due to which of the following?
    a. Empty heat in the lung
    b. Liver fire invading the Lung:
    c. Heat in the Lung
    d. Dryness invading the Lung
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  1. Ke Xue Fang can treat hemoptysis due to which of the following?
    a. Empty heat in the lung
    b. Liver fire invading the Lung: (not yet Outlined) NOT ON BOARD LIST
    c. Heat in the Lung
    d. Dryness invading the Lung
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  1. The tongue and pulse condition indicating Zhi Gan Cao Tang is __________?
    a. Pale, smooth tongue with intermittent or knotted pulse
    b. Red tongue, hasty pulse
    c. Pale tongue, weak pulse
    d. Thick white tongue coating, tight pulse
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  1. The tongue and pulse condition indicating Zhi Gan Cao Tang is __________?
    a. Pale, smooth tongue with intermittent or knotted pulse: Zhi Gan Cao Tang is to regulate the Heart, tonify Qi/Blood/Yin.
    b. Red tongue, hasty pulse
    c. Pale tongue, weak pulse
    d. Thick white tongue coating, tight pulse
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  1. Which of the following formulas can be used to treat a chronic cough with copious sputum arising from Lung Qi Xu?
    a. Shen Ling Bai Zhu San
    b. Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang
    c. Yu Nu Jian
    d. Xie Bai San
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  1. Which of the following formulas can be used to treat a chronic cough with copious sputum arising from Lung Qi Xu?
    a. Shen Ling Bai Zhu San: Using Si Jun Zi Tang as a foundation, it adds the diuretic herbs Bian Dou and Yi Yi Ren – The addition of jie Geng helps bring the formula to the lung to resolve chronic lung phlegm due to stomach phlegm dampness.
    b. Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang
    c. Yu Nu Jian
    d. Xie Bai San
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  1. Which of the following organs are affected by Zuo Jin Wan?
    a. Heart and Kidney
    b. Liver and Stomach: Diagnosis
    c. Lung and Spleen
    d. Lung and Kidney
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  1. Which of the following organs are affected by Zuo Jin Wan? (Left Metal Pill)
    a. Heart and Kidney
    b. Liver and Stomach: Diagnosis: Liver and Stomach disharmony from heat in the Liver. This is a two ingredient Pill with Huang Lian and Wu Zhu Yu as the ingredients. This is often used for ACID REFLUX. (Clear Heat from the Organs Category – Stomach)
    c. Lung and Spleen
    d. Lung and Kidney
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  1. What is the chief herb of Yu Ping Feng San?
    a. Bai Zhu
    b. Huang Qi
    c. Fang Feng
    d. Gui Zhi
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  1. What is the chief herb of Yu Ping Feng San?
    a. Bai Zhu
    b. Huang Qi: Bai Zhu is the Deputy and Fang Feng is the Assistant – Sheng Jiang as the Envoy – Bai Zhu CALMS The FETUS as well
    c. Fang Feng
    d. Gui Zhi