TCM College

NCCAOM Examination 


Individual Chinese Herbal Medicine Category Chart For NCCAOM Examination Review-by original order

Individual Chinese Herbal Medicine Category Chart For NCCAOM Examination Review-by alphabetical order

Chinese Herbal Formula Category Chart For NCCAOM Examination Review


Chinese Herbology 


Chapter 1 Herbs that Release the Exterior

​Chapter 2 Herbs that Clear Heat

Chapter 3 Cathartic and laxative herbs

Chapter 4 Herbs that Urine Promoting and Dampness Draining

Chapter 5 Herbs that Expel Wind Dampness

​Chapter 6 Herbs that Aromatically Transform Dampness

​Chapter 7 Herbs that Transform Phlegm and Stop Cough

​Chapter 8 Herbs that Reduce Food Stagnation

​Chapter 9 Herbs that Regulate the Qi

Chapter 10 Herbs that Regulate the Blood

​Chapter 11 Herbs for Warming the Interior and Expelling Cold

​Chapter 12 Herbs for Calming Spirit (Shen)

​Chapter 13 Tonifying herbs--Tonifying Qi Herbs

Chapter 13 Tonifying herbs--Tonifying Yang herbs

Chapter 13 Tonifying herbs--Tonifying Blood herbs

Chapter 13 Tonifying herbs--Tonifying Yin herbs

​Chapter 14 Stabilizing and Binding Herbs

Chapter 15 Herbs that Open Orifice

​Chapter 16 Herbs that Extinguish Wind and Stop Tremor

Chapter 17 Herbs that Expel Parasites

Chapter 18 Emetic herbs

Chapter 19 Herbs for External Application



Herbal Formulas


Chapter 1 Formulas that release the exterior 

Chapter 2 Formulas that clear heat

Chapter 3 Formulas that drain downward

Chapter 4 Formulas that harmonize

Chapter 5 Formulas that drain dampness

Chapter 6 Formulas that moisten dryness

Chapter 7 Formulas that warm interior

Chapter 8 Formulas that tonify deficiency 

Chapter 9 Formulas that regulate Qi

Chapter 10 Formulas that regulate the Blood

Chapter 11 Formulas that stabilize & bind

Chapter 12 Formulas that calm the Shen

Chapter 13 Formulas that expel wind

Chapter 14 Formulas that open orifices

Chapter 15 Formulas that dissolve phlegm 

Chapter 16 Formulas that reduce food stagnation

Chapter 17 Formulas that expel parasites


Tongue and Pulse 


Tongue Diagnosis of Chinese Medicine

Pulse Diagnosis of Chinese Medicine

One World, One Medicine

    (同一个世界,同一个中医)