LESSON FIVE QUIZ Master Sheet

#1

(Page numbers are file pages, not imprinted page numbers)

1. When at rest, nutrients are _____ _____ of storage. After meals, the blood becomes ______ ______ and these are drawn into storage,
drawn out, nutrient rich.

2. _______ is a major player in this storage cycle by stimulating and facilitating the absorption of nutrients _____ the cell.
Insulin, into

3. Absorption, regulated by _______, temporarily shuts down other internal cell functions.
insulin

4. ______ _______ ______ are cell-synthesized and cell-regulated. When the cell gets flooded with nutrients, the cell becomes ______ - _______
insulin binding sites, insulin-resistant

5. Insulin resistance means that blood nutrients take _____ to be absorbed into cells.
longer

6. Insulin resistance fosters_________
hyperinsulinemia

7. The docking substance needed to bind insulin to the cell receptors is ________
chromium

8. Originally called “Syndrome X”, this combination of insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia is now referred to as ________ _________
metabolic syndrome

9. The ________ ______ of the arteries never become insulin resistant, therefore cannot limit nutrient intake.
epithelial cells

10. Insulin is an ______ hormone.
anabolic

11. Increased metabolism in an anabolic or growth state increases _______ stress.
oxidative

12. Hyperinsulinemia can contribute to ____________ of the arteries.
atherosclerosis

13. Hyperinsulinemia, by increasing oxidative stress and cell damage, can contribute to ________.
cancer

14. The greatest physical predictor of insulin resistance is the presence of a “_______ _______”
beer belly

15. In Metabolic Syndrome, when insulin gets high, _________ get high. When they get high, _____ cholesterol gets lowered.
triglycerides, HDL

16. Elevated insulin contributes to _______ blood
sticky

17. Hyperinsulinemia is most notable for contributing to_______, _______ and _______ cancer.
breast, colon, prostate

18. These three, together with lung cancer, are responsible for over ____ of cancer deaths
50%

19. Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is directly induced by excess _______
insulin

Diagnostics - refer to monographs

20. The best Omega 3 fatty acids derive from animals that eat _______
greens

21. Farm salmon and other cultivated fish are _____ in Omega 3 fatty acids.
low

22. The ideal ratio of Omega 3 to Omega 6 is ___ to ___ or __ to ___. Normal American ratios are 1:15 or 1:20.
1-2, 1-3

23. Margarine and crisco are fats VERY high in  ____ ____ ________.
trans-fatty acids

24. Diet deficiencies in chromium, magnesium, zinc and B-vitamins can contribute to lack of _______ _______ ______.
trained muscle mass

RESEARCH CD ROMS - Glycemic Index - Herbs #1/
NUTRITION and SUPPLEMENTS/Glycemic Index/Glycemic Index Lists-2.pdf (best)

25. Abundant dietary ______ is essential for hyperinsulinemia
protein

26. Four nights of ______ ________  alone will induce insulin resistance.
sleep deprivation

27. Describe the three areas that can induce a cure.
Low glycemic index diet, resistance exercise, supplementation

Graph, page 9, Lecture Notes

28. Faced with increased insulin, cell-receptors for insulin ________ in numbers, and become less ________
decrease, sensitive

29. Such cells, now insulin resistant, need ________ insulin to work,
elevated

30. In hyperinsulinemia, __________ and _________ are abnormally excreted
magnesium, chromium

#2

1. The “third great addictive white powder” is ___________
sugar

2. If you are addicted to sugar, you NEED sugar to stay in ________
homeostasis

3. Yo Yo syndrome.
You have elevated insulin (hyperinsulinemia or insulin resistance)
Your blood sugar gets ____
You secrete _______ and _______ to get it back up.
Your blood sugar gets _____
You secrete more ______
low, cortisol and adrenalin, high, insulin

4. After using up convenient glucose, the liver uses stored lipid sources and FFAs and allows the oxidation of _______ by the brain and striped muscles.
ketones
see Lecture notes.pdf. page 63

5. As you approach greater ketosis, you start to produce more ______ ______, which, among other things, blocks use of protein as a fuel.
growth hormone
see Lecture notes.pdf. page 42-47

6. Normally, growth hormone, coupled with _____, maintains a proper anabolic strength.
IGF-1

7. IGF-1, a liver growth factor, is elevated in ___________. Elevated IGF-1 shuts down the pituitary production of ________ ________
hyperinsulinemia, growth factor or somatotropin

see Lecture notes.pdf. page 28

Syndrome X Therapeutic Triangle - see Lecture notes.pdf. page 49

8. The proper exercise for reducing insulin resistance and elevating growth hormone is a ______ or the equivalent.
sprint

Growth Hormone and Age - see Lecture notes.pdf. page 29

Stress, Sleep, and Insulin Resistance - see Lecture notes.pdf. page 34

Phase 1 Preparation - see Lecture notes.pdf. page 52

#3

Please view Kidney Images and Kidney animations on Lesson 5 CD

1. Urine descending the ureters from the pelvis of a kidney is milked down as a series of individual_____
boluses

2. Blood vessels filter through the (number)_______ nephrons in each kidney, lose much of their serum to the nephron. The nephrons are embedded in the ______, a gelatinous hydrogel which absorbs much of the cleaned serum from the sides of the nephron, which is reabsorbed into the exiting blood vessels, rehydrating to near full volume the very blood that was originally dehydrated by the ___________.
500,000-1,000,000, matrix or interstitium, nephrons

3. If you get anemic and need more red blood cells, the kidneys secrete _______ into the blood, which stimulates red blood cell synthesis in the bone marrow.
erythropoeitin

4. _____ is a posterior pituitary hormone that stimulates retention of water by the kidneys. _______ is an adrenal cortex steroid hormone that stimulates retention of sodium by the kidneys.
ADH (Vasopressin), aldosterone

5. High levels of acid waste products in blood result in ______ urine. Diminished acid waste products in blood results in ______ urine.
acid, alkaline

6. Vitamin D from the skin and from food must be converted by both the ______ and the ________ to a form that acts on the wall of the _____ _______ and acts to absorb either _____ or ________.
kidneys, liver, small intestine, calcium, phosphorus

7. While calcium in a food context may or may not be absorbed in the ______ ________ (dependant on hormones), calcium in solution as in a leaf tea is________ absorbed through the_______ __________ (independent of hormones)
small intestine, better, stomach membranes

8. The simple tea highest in calcium is _____ _____
mormon tea

9. Alfalfa should be picked all at once, otherwise the stand gets defensively _____ and _______
bitter, astringent

Refer to handbook - Principles and Practice of Constitutional Physiology for Herbalists

10. If you secrete aldosterone, you reabsorb nearly all the _______ from the nephron filtrate; if you don’t secrete aldosterone, you reabsorb nearly all the _____ and excrete nearly all your _______. (real life bounces around in the middle)
sodium, potassium, sodium

11. The hormonal choices between ______ and ______ absorption are made in the small intestine.
calcium, phosphorus

12. List some symptoms of kidney deficiency

13. _________ ______ is a major contributing stress response in kidney deficiency.
adrenal stress

14. Kidney deficiency and adrenal stress induce the predictable state of suppressed or tightened ________ _______ _______, constricted _______ arteries with dimished _________urination and compensatory ________urination when the renal arteries relax.
lower urinary tract, renal, daytime, night time

#4

1. Kidney deficiency and liver deficiency in a person with sound health and native adrenaline stress should be left alone. These are primal and innate strengths and can not be _________ without weakening the person. You only try to change them when exaggerated by ________ stress
suppressed, excessive

2. The primary herb for stimulating kidney deficiency when necessary is ________
licorice (Glycyrrhiza)

3.  Frequent urination, as characterized in kidney deficiency, shows up by drying the _____, the bronchial ______ and the _______,
feces, mucosa, skin

4. In such a person, licorice root will shift fluid secretions to the _______, _______ and ________
colon, lungs, skin

5. After licorice, the most useful herb is _______ _______
Dong Quai

Refer to the tonic herbs, page 32

6. Name two substances that will “highlight” kidney weakness when drunk
____________________________________________________________________
cheap red wine, rancid coffee beans

Refer to the intake form, page 36

7. Adrenal cortical stress, with elevated gluco- and minerosteroids and androgens causes sticky, viscous _______. This is perceived as dehydration (there is no ability to perceive “viscous”) and the pituitary secretes ____ in order to retain water and dilute the seemingly dehydrated blood.
blood, ADH (vasopressin)

8. Chronic high blood pressure, with the systolic and diastolic numbers being close together, results in the blood vessel muscles gradually constricting and the arterial walls _______
hardening

9. The two most widely used herbs for sodium leeching to oppose the sodium retention of kidney excess are __________ and _________
Taraxacum, Arctium 

10. Erigeron, Equisetum and Capsella are used to strengthen the kidney structure in both _______ and ________.
excess, deficiency

11. Anyone sick enough to want to see an herbalist needs a ________ ______ to help with metabolic stress and assist blood buffering of ____ waste products
mineral tea, acidic

#5

original: HERBS#1/BOOKS-Moore Manuals-files/Therapeutics/Pulse Test.pdf
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1. The only food you are going to eat to improve your mood will be a food drug, like ___________ or a food reagen that raises your ______ and _____ ________
chocolate, pulse, blood sugar

2. In a binge bout, the first hit is the strongest, each additional “hit” _______ in strength.
diminishes

3. The classic reagen food is one that you can’t keep it in the house because you will ____ ___ ____ ____.
eat it all up

4.  A cup of coffee: adrenalin mimicry from the _______; a reagen response potential from the _____, the _____ and ______ in the coffee, a glycemic response from the _______
caffeine, coffee, milk, sugar, sugar

5. One of the primary benefits of the pulse test, obviously, is _______ _________.
self knowledge

6.

Refer to HERB FORMULAS FOR CLINIC AND HOME, page 8, file #2.8

2.8 NEUTRALIZING CORDIAL (Modified)
		Rhubarb Tincture			 80 ml
		Cinnamon Tincture			 64 ml
		Hydrastis Tincture			 40 ml
		Spirit of Peppermint			  8 ml
		Potassium carbonate		16 grams
		Simple Syrup				250 ml
		Diluted alcohol (50%)		550 ml
Step 1. Dissolve 16 grams of potassium carbonate in 250 ml Simple Syrup
Step 2. Mix the tinctures, spirit and diluted alcohol.
Step 3. Mix both liquids, stirring or blending until KCO3 is dissolved.
Step 4. Add additional diluted alcohol to the total (if necessary) to bring the total volume to 1000 ml.
Use a teaspoon or two for nausea, gas pains, dyspepsia, tenesmus, diarrhea AND constipation. An elegant pharmaceutical that may be the single closest thing to a universal GI tonic. Unfortunately it is no longer made by American manufacturers.

1. Rhubarb contains _______ similar to Yellow Dock. They are astringent and complex, and take most of the intestinal tract to break down. 
tannins

2. Unlike a simple astringent like Oak Bark which shrinks tissue as far down as the _______, the complex astringents in Rhubarb may not be active until the ______
stomach, colon

3. Although Rhubarb contains anthraquinone laxatives like Yellow Dock, its astringency means that a ______ effect is followed by _________
laxative, constipation

4. Rhubarb is so astringent that the tincture needs ________ added in order to not self-precipitate.
glycerin

5. Cinnamon is ______, _________, _______-_______, mildly _____-_______, and used for ______ ________ from any mucus membranes.
aromatic, anesthetic, counter-irritant, anti-spasmodic, passive bleeding

6. ______ ______can be used in place of Hydrastis (Golden Seal) if necessary. Functions are similar.
Yerba Mansa

7. Hydrastis _____ ________ of congested mucus membranes (primary, irreducible function).
stimulates healing

8. Spirit of peppermint is made by adding ___ parts grain alcohol to ___ part peppermint oil (Oil of Peppermint)
9,1.

9. Peppermint slows the rate of _________ of nerve endings in the gut, thereby slowing the impulses, and reducing sharp pain to a dull ache.
depolarization

10. Peppermint oil capsules are good for _______ _______ ________
irritable bowel syndrome

11. Peppermint oil, good for simple indigestion, can aggravate _____ (gastroesophageal reflux disease) and _______ hernia by overly ______ the gastric muscles.
GERD, hiatal, relaxing

12. Potassium carbonate (or bicarbonate) acts as a simple _______ (as in stomach hyperacidity) as well an aid to restore membrane health in _________ of the gastric mucosa from loss of potassium.
antacid, dehydration

SIMPLE SYRUP

		850 grams of WHITE sugar (any other form, such as
		turbinado or dried sugar cane juice will ferment)
		450 to 475 ml of water

	Blend together, pour into a saucepan, and heat slowly until the sugar is completely dissolved.  Will make a liter of simple syrup.  Store in a cool place,but no refrigeration is necessary

Specific Medicines: see 
HERBS#1/ECLECTIC, HERB, PHARMACY texts/Useful Prescriptions.pdf 
(1935)
pages 45-49