Contraindications the stem is begging you to see

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EASTERN · ~14% OF EXAM

In the Five Element generating cycle, which element is the “child” of Wood?

Fire

Water

Metal

Earth

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Wood burns to Fire — Fire is Wood’s child.

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Why generic prep fails in New York

The MBLEx does not test Eastern Medicine. New York does.

About 20 of 140 NYS questions (~14%) pull Eastern content from inside the real exam sections. National prep books skip it. That is how people who already passed the MBLEx walk into the NY boards cold.

Five Element cycles and organ pairs

Meridians and point landmarks

Yin / Yang the way the boards use them

Qi language the MBLEx never asks

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Contraindications the stem is begging you to see

Fever, a sprain from half an hour ago, heat on a red hot joint. The fancy stroke is bait.

Treatment-planning items love a client who almost qualifies for your favorite technique. Then they drop one word that ends the session. Acute. Fever. Unexplained swelling in a calf. You are not being creative. You are being licensed.

Acute plantar fasciitis wants ice and rest, not a heroic first-visit scrape. Chronic tendinitis in this bank is friction then ice, not a cooking show about heating the pan. Deep belly work on a high-pressure client is a caution (aorta, vagus, sudden change), not a cartoon rupture.

Stem word to default (exam behavior, not your whole clinical career)

If the stem says

Default move

Usual bait

Fever / systemic infection signs

No massage, refer

Lymphatic 'detox' story

Sprain 30 minutes ago

Ice, rest, do not deep-tissue it

Cross-fiber to 'realign'

Acute inflammation

Cold, back off

Heat because it feels nice

Chronic tendinitis (this bank)

Friction then ice

Heat then ice

Hypertension + deep abdomen

Caution / modify

Burst-the-aorta folklore

Spastic paralysis

Effleurage

Tapotement to 'wake it up'

Treatment planning

Stroke table

Hemiplegia laterality

Quiz

If the stem hands you a red flag, do not negotiate with it.

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