The Chicken Soup Method · JK Zhang
The Soup Dial
Every pot of soup starts with the Basic Pot: chicken, ginger and water. Choose what goes in with it. As you add each ingredient, you'll see which way the soup points, what job it's doing, and when each ingredient goes in. It isn't a recipe. It's the method from the book, live.
Step 1 · optional
Read yourself today
Circle the strongest pattern. You don't need every sign.
Hot or cold?
Dry or heavy?
Empty or stuck?
Step 2 · optional
Your constitution
Today's reading chooses the soup's job. Your constitution, the way your body usually runs, adds a safeguard to every pot of soup.
Not sure? Take the kitchen-table quiz
Answer for how you are most of the time over the past year, not for today. Tick every statement that sounds like you.
Column A
Column B
Step 3