Simplified Review for National Examinations in Acupuncture and Clean Needle Technique

by Decheng Chen

This book is organized to cover sequentially each of the examination contents (basic theory and clinical science areas) specified by the NCCAOM required. There are ten chapters in this book, each chapter includes two Instructional & Explanations and Practice Test, and and integrated Model Examination section at the end of the review. The sections are as 1. Basic including Yin-Yang, Five Elements, Zang-fu organs, Qi, blood and body fluid, etiology, etc.
2. Diagnostic including four methods of diagnosis (inspection, auscultation & olfaction, Inquiry and Palpitation) and differentiation (eight-principle, six-meridian, four-level, extra meridian, Qi, blood and body fluid, Zang-fu, and San Jiao)
3. Meridian including twelve regular meridians and their attachments, extra meridians and collatorals
4. Acupoint including point location, indication, method, specific point, application, etc.
5. Needle including acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping, three-edged needle, cutaneous needle, intradermal needle, auricular acupuncture and scalp acupuncture
6. Acupuncture there are seven categories, 63 kinds of different diseases treatment, including main symptioms of disease, key words of clinical manifestations, and basic/supplement points of treatment
7. including communication of disease, theory and practice of clean needle technique, acupuncture treatment and management of possible needling accidents.
8. Legal issue for medical record, medical record confidentiality & release, medical record retention & destruction, privacy & modesty, sexual boundaries and about NCCAOM and its certification
9. Point separate all the important meridian points and some of the extra points to the certain anatomical diagrams
10. Models of including three Writing Model Examinations, four Point Location Model Tests, three CNT Writing Model Tests and their answers

343 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 2003