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Acupuncture and moxibustion are an important component part of Traditional Chinese Medicine（TCM）. Their effectiveness in preventing and curing diseases and improving people's health hasaroused increasing interest among people all over the world.This book has been compiled on the basis of basic TCM principles and clinical observations, atthe same time referring to traditional modes of Chinese acupuncture and moxibustion tests andrelevant teaching materials currently huse at home and abroad. Containing rnultiple——choiceand traditional questions together with their answers, the book is useful as a source ofready-made questions for use by examiners, a source of ideas for them in the construction ofnew questions, an aid to students planning to take tests of the subject, and a means by which toassess one's own progress in the acquiring of TCM knowledge.Training courses for TCm and Chinese Acupuncture at the hospitat where the author has beenworking for over 20 years.Rated among the country's best TCM hospitals and model hospitals since 1994, Guang'anmenHospital in Beijing, China, the official TCM hospital for 2008 Olympic Games, the onlyBupa——recognized TCM service provider of excellence and one of the WHO collaborative centersfor traditional medicine, is a general hospital of integrative medicine with 650 inpatient bedsand over 7,500 daily outpatient visits. A variety of TCM treatment methods have been fullyintegrated with modern medicine in each of its 26 clinical departments for over 50 years.Focusing on clinical teaching, the International Training Center of Guang'anmen Hospital hasbeen dedicated to short-term courses with a flexible course length such as Continuing MedicalEducation [CME] programs for medical doctors, skills training for TCM practitioners, ContinuingNursing Education [CNE] programs for nurses, overseas electives for medical students andintroductory courses for health officials.
About Author
崔 永强， Dr. Cui Yongqiang is currently directing the InternationalDepartment of Guang'anmen Hospital, China Academy ofChinese Medical Sciences, formerly, China Academy of Tra-ditional Chinese Medicine （TCM）. He has been working atthe country's best hospital and the first-Bupa recognized TCMhospital specializing in integrative medicine for over 20 years.
He served as a WHO temporary adviser for the informalconsultation on evidence-based clinical practice guidelines ontraditional medicine for cancer, and a WHO consultant for assessment of inte-grative medicine practice in Malaysian government hospitals.
Dr. Cui was an invited speaker and expert for a number of internationalconferences and academic activities held in the National Institutes of Health（NIH） or National Cancer Institute （NCI） of the USA, the Traditional MedicineDivision of Malaysia, the Bupa Group of the UK, the Jewish General Hospitaland St. Mary Hospital of Montreal, Canada, the Singapore General Hospital,and Sigma-Tan of Italy.
He organized the 2006 Seminar of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment ofTCM for African Health Officials, the 2006 China-ASEAN Seminar on Tradi-tional Medicine for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment and the 2008 China-ASEAN Workshopon Standardized Practice of Traditional Medicine.
He has coordinated many international activities' for Guang'anmen hospi-tal, including cooperative research programs in integrative medicine, continu-ing medical education （CME） and continuing nursing education （CNE） onTCM and integrative medicine, for the US and European Doctors of Medicine（MDs）, Registered Nurses （RNs）, and Nurse Practitioners （NPs）.
He also has special interest in providing short-term TCM courses for US medi-cal students from Harvard, John Hopkins, Come[l, Ohio State University, etc andnurse students from the US, Germany and Sweden. He manages training pro-grams for foreign students of TCM/Acupuncture at Guang'anmen Hospital, andalso mentors medical students in their international research projects.
Dr. Cui, co-author of the Handbook to Chinese Auricular Therapy, is secretarygeneral of the Young Physicians' Committee （under age 45） of the Beijing TCMAssociation.
Table of Contents
Part One Multiple-choice Questions
"A"Type Questions
I.Yin-Yang and the Five Elements
il. Zang-Fu, Qi, Blood and Body Fluid
III. The Channels, Collaterals and Acupoints
IV. Diagnostic Methods
V. Differentiation of Syndromes
Vl. Techniques of Acupuncture, Moxibustion and Cupping
VII. Treatment of Diseases
Solutions to the Exercises
"B"Type Questions
I. Yin-Yang and the Five Elements
II. Zang-Fu, Qi, Blood and Body Fluid
III. The Channels, Collaterals and Acupoints
IV. Diagnostic Methods
V. Differentiation of Syndromes
Vl. Techniques of Acupuncture, Moxibustion and Cupping
VII. Treatment of Diseases
Solutions to the Exercises
"C"Type Questions
I.Yin-Yang and the Five Elements
II. Zang-Fu, Qi, Blood and Body Fluid
III. The Channels, Collaterals and Acupoints
IV. Diagnostic Methods
V. Differentiation of Syndromes
Vl. Techniques of Acupuncture, Moxibustion and Cupping
VII. Treatment of Diseases
Solutions to the Exercises
"K"Type Questions
I~ Yin-Yang and the Five Elements
II. Zang-Fu, Qi, Blood and Body Fluid
III. The Channels, Collaterals and Acupoints
IV. Diagnostic Methods
V. Differentiation of Syndromes
Vl. Techniques of Acupuncture, Moxibustion and Cupping
VIIo Treatment of Diseases
Solutions to the Exercises
Part Two Traditional Questions
I Underline the Part of the Statement Which Is Incorrect
Solutions to the Exercises
II.True or False
Solutions to the Exercises
III. Fill the Blanks
Solutions to the Exercises
IV. Definitions of TCM Terms
V. Case Analysis
VI. Questions and Answers
Appendixes
Standard Acupuncture Nomenclature (Part 1 Revised Edition)
Standard Acupuncture Nomenclature (Part 2 Revised Edition)
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3. A woman, aged 40, in May 1980 complained of a headache that hadplagued her for many years. The history indicated bouts of right temporalpain that began 20 years ago, often preceded by nervous tension or overfatigueand aggravated during menses. She experienced also boring pain in the righttemporal region accompanied by cramping pain of the right eye. The boutsusually subsided after three days, sometimes with slight pain remaining.Modern examination showed no positive. Her case was diagnosed by theinternist as one of vascular headache. Other positive findings obtained with thetraditional Chinese diagnostic procedures included: flushed face, restlessness,irritability, poor appetite with bitter taste in the mouth, constipation （one b.m.in two or three days）, reddened tongue with a thin yellow coating, and a thintaut pulse, weak at the left cubit.Questions:
Refer to the differentiation of syndromes according to the Zang-Fu organsand channels to decide whether the following diagnoses are true or false andexplain.
A: This is a case of headache due to attack of wind on the Shaoyangchannel,
B: This is a case of headache due to Shaoyang involvement, obstruction ofliver Qi and exuberance of liver yang.
C: This is a case of headache caused by endogenous wind from the liverdue to deficiency of yin and exuberance of liver yang.Key to the answer:
A and B are false, C is true.
It is wrong to attribute hemicrania to attack of channels by wind.When we speak of attack of channels by wind we are referring to attack byexogenous wind, which is characterized by paraxysmal pains and absenceof any symptoms indicating involvement of internal viscera. Headache dueto attack of channels by wind is an excessive symptom-complex which is notprecipitated by fatigue or menses. On the other hand, this is a case of headachedu to internal involvement that has nothing to do with exogenous wind.
Paraxysmal pains accompanied by synchronized eye involvement indicatesthe presence of wind, but rather than exogenous wind, it is endogenous windfrom the liver du to deficiency of yin and exuberance of liver yang.
