MRL Quiz
Part 1 The Use of Mushroom Nutrition in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture with Prof Ana Varela (Lac.)
What type of energy does a TDP lamp emit? *
Why is the use of immunosuppressants considered a general contraindication in the use of mushroom nutrition? *
Why should mushroom nutrition not be used in post organ transplant patients? *
Why is the use of antiplatelet and anticoagulant drugs (eg Warfarin and Aspirin) considered a general contraindication when used with mushroom nutrition *
Which mushroom should not be used in pregnancy? *
In which period of pregnancy is mushroom nutrition recommended to be avoided *
As mushroom nutrition has a detoxifying effect and can cause stomach discomfort after how many days with this side-effect should a patient stop taking mushroom nutrition? *
What is the common action of mushroom nutrition in terms of TCM? *
Which of the following mushrooms Tonify? *
Which mushrooms Sedate the Spirit and Calm the Mind? *
Which mushrooms regulate the Qi? (more than 1 answer) *
Which mushrooms expel wind dampness? *
Which mushrooms Drain and transform Dampness? (more than 1 answer) *
Which mushrooms Tonify the Yang? *
Which mushrooms tonify the Qi *
Which mushrooms Tonify the Yin? *
Which mushrooms harmonize L and Sp/St and L and Yangming? *
Which mushrooms Regulate the Qi in the Middle Jiao? *
Which mushrooms expel wind-damp, unblock the channels and drain and
transform dampness? *
Which mushrooms drains Dampness in the Middle Burner? *
Which mushrooms drain generalized dampness and Edema? *
Part 2. Mushroom Nutrition as a Neuroprotective Agent: Perspectives from Western Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine with Prof. Wilfried Legein (Lac).
Which TCM Concept best defines weiqi? *
Which mushroom has the effect of tonifying spleen, resolves dampness and
phlegm, nourishes liver and kidney yin, clears heat, nourishes the spirit, enhances energy? *
Which mushroom benefits the five zang, aids digestion, heals inflammation; strengthens, clears, transforms and replenishes the spleen and increases qi and calms the spirit? *
Chronic inflammation sustains the progression of which condition(s): *
Which UK researcher determined in 2009, that 90% of plaques in Alzheimer's disease sufferers' brains contain HSV-1 DNA, and most of the viral DNA is located within amyloid plaques? *
Oxidative stress has been implicated in mechanisms leading to neuronal cell
injury in various pathological states of the brain, including which neurodegenerative disorders? *
In which conditions is there a malfunction of the growth stages of hippocampal neurons or an unexplained severe deletion of these neurons or inability of these
neurons to establish an integration within the existing circuitry of hippocampal function. *
In which condition has there been a focus on the impact of "insulin resistance"
that has led to defining the condition as a form of "type 3 diabetes"? *
Which substance is considered as a vitagene? *
Which biomass mushroom has been found by researchers at the University of
Catania and Messina (Italy) to increase LAX 4, HO-1, Hsp-70 and Thioredoxin in
rats *
What is Lipoxin A4 (LAX4) ? *
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