QUESTIONS
Meridian codes: LU-LI / ST-SP / HT-SI / BL-KI / PC-TH / GB-LV
1. Indicate the best AP point to treat fever:
(a) BL11
(b) GV03
(c) GV14
(d) ST40
(e) LV03
2. Indicate the best point (for use with local points) to treat acute traumatic pain:
(a) LI04
(b) ST25
(c) SP06
(d) LI11
(e) GB34
3. Five of the following six points are immunostimulant points, for instance to treat cholera with fever. Indicate the point of least value:
(a) SP09
(b) LI04
(c) LI11
(d) ST36
(e) ST25
(f) GV14
4. Indicate the condition least likely to respond to AP:
(a) Paralysis due to drug overdose
(b) Paralysis due to motor neuron degeneration
(c) Paralysis due to disc disease with loss of deep pain sensation
(d) Paralysis due to traumatic peripheral neuritis
(e) Paralysis due to cerebral vasospasm
5. One of the following statements is not correct. Indicate the incorrect statement:
(a) Combination of per- and post-op EAP reduces the demand for post-op analgesic drugs and patients become self-caring more quickly
(b) The incidence of post-op sepsis was much lower in patients under AP analgesia as compared with those under general anaesthesia
(c) AP at PC06 was much less effective in preventing pre- or post- op nausea and vomiting than cyclazine and metoclopramide in patients undergoing surgery
(d) Nausea and vomiting due to passing a laryngoscope can be prevented in 80% of patients by heavy acupressure on LI04
(e) Atropine or anticholinergic agents produce side effects, including dry mouth, blurred vision, dizziness and tachycardia. AP can replace anticholinergics, with few or no side effects, to facilitate gastroscopy or a barium meal
6. One of the following statements is not correct. Indicate the incorrect statement:
(a) EAP combined with epidural, local or general anaesthesia for surgery reduces the amount of anaesthetic drugs needed and confers neurovegetative protection from the effects of surgical trauma
(b) Post-op recovery of breathing, consciousness and autonomic function is faster and the immune system is less depressed after combined anaesthesia than after drug anaesthesia without AP
(c) AP post-op stimulates fast recovery of liver function and reduces hallucinations on emerging from ketamine anaesthesia
(d) Electro-AP post-op gave less effective analgesia than i/v meperidine
(e) Electro-AP post-op halved the use of pethidine
7. One of the following statements is not correct. Indicate the incorrect statement:
(a) AP was not effective in primary agalactia and hypogalactia
(b) AP was effective within a few days in acute mastitis, breast abscess and breast carbuncle in women
(c) AP was effective in mammary fibrocystic disease in women within 3 weeks and can be used in the differential diagnosis of fibrocystic disease from mammary carcinoma
(d) AP was effective in mammary hyperplasia and proliferative mastosis
(e) AP can be used to prevent threatened abortion, to correct foetal malposition, to induce labour in women; to cure morning sickness, vaginitis/leucorrhea, dysmenorrhoea; to resolve vulvar ulceration, vulvar leukoplakia and hysteromyoma without the need for surgery.
8. One of the following statements is not correct. Indicate the incorrect statement:
(a) AP cured female infertility/sterility (amenorrhoea, anovulation, polycystic ovarian disease, functional metrorrhagia) and pelvic inflammatory disease
(b) The results of AP in pelvic inflammatory disease were not as good as antibiotic therapy in similar cases
(c) Laser on the clitoris was effective in anoestrus in cows
(d) AP can treat impotence, poor libido, infertility and prostatitis in men
(e) Endometritis always follows mating in mares but healthy mares clear the uterus within 48-72 hours
(9) One of the following statements is not correct. Indicate the incorrect statement:
(a) BL23, GB25 and KI01 are especially effective for kidney function and BL28,32; CV03 and SP06 are very effective for bladder function
(b) AP was effective in limiting proteinuria and curing nephritis in HgCl2 toxicity in mice
(c) AP was effective in renal colic, urolithiasis. Pain was controlled in minutes and stones were often passed in hours or days
(d) The effects of AP on renal function and ureteral peristalsis can be seen with intravenous pyelography
(e) Although AP is effective in functional bladder problems (dysuria, urgency, frequency, urine retention) it is not effective when bladder lesions are present (calculi, erosion, cystitis)