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FORMULAS and RECIPES

Here are some of Jean's recipes, mixtures and formulas. TWP stands for "The Wellness Place" which is the name of her clinic, which she ran for many years until she went into semi-retirement. For maximum health benefit, all items should be organic, all seeds should be raw, and all oils should be cold-pressed. All cookware should be inert, as in, avoid anything with teflon, with a coating, with aluminum, from cast iron. Generally, stainless steel and glass cookware such as Pyrex is inert. Enameled cookware is far superior assuming it is undamaged.

Jean's TWP Soothing Oil

Topical skin mixture. This is Jean's Wellness Place Soothing Oil mix - good for itchy skin, skin inflammation, bites:

20 drops of peppermint oil
30 drops of tea tree oil
5 drops of clove oil
1 tablespoon of hemp seed oil or black cumin seed oil

Mix and apply on the insect bites or otherwise irritated skin.

 

Mung Bean Soup

Remember to use all organic ingredients, and purified water:

1 c brown rice
1/2 c mung beans
1/4 c wakame or hijiki
1 qt water

Bring to a boil; turn down to a simmer, and cover. Simmer until  beans are soft. Season to taste with sea salt, cayenne, ginger root, fresh minced garlic.

Mince 1 bunch of cilantro; add this with
1/2 c toasted oat bran

Turn heat up, bring to a boil, then turn off. Let retained heat cook mixture for 5 minutes.  Serve with lime wedges.

Note: 

This is an excellent recipe for supplying minerals, detoxifying the system, with complex carbohydrates, and providing fiber for the digestive track.

 

Jean's TWP Bean Soup

This is a very healthy soup recipe. It has no flesh foods. Remember to use all organic ingredients.

1 cup brown rice
1 T mung bean
1 T adzuki bean
1 T navy bean
1 T kidney bean
1 T black bean
1 T raw sunflower seed
2 T unhulled raw brown sesame seeds

1/4 c wakame or hijiki seaweed

Also sea salt or kosher salt, garlic, ginger, cayenne and fresh minced cilantro.

Put all ingredients in a large inert soup pot, add 3 cups of purified water. Bring to a boil and cover, then simmer over lowest heat possible until all the beans are soft. Season to taste with sea salt, fresh garlic, ginger, and cilantro.

Consume a portion (6 to 8 oz) as a meal once or twice per day. This recipe is extremely helpful for people who are coming off a partial fast. It has lots of minerals and complex carbohydrates.

This soup is high in minerals, complex carbohydrates, fiber and amino acids. when Jean was in private practice, she gave this recipe to many patients who had chronic inflammatory disease, and this became a mainstay for them. Several patients had excellent results consuming this soup recipe.

 

TWP Cleansing Breakfast

This is a mush recipe, for one serving. Double it for two, etc.

1 cup purified water

1/3 cup toasted organic oat bran

Combine in an inert pot (NO teflon, no aluminum, no cast iron). Bring to a boil, turn down to low simmer immediately, simmer 30 seconds, turn off heat and allow retained heat to do remainder of cooking. Add:

1 T freshly milled organic flax seeds 

1 T shredded plain coconut (unsweetened)

1 T organic raw almonds

1/4 t organic cinnamon powder

1/8 t fresh grated ginger

Season to taste with local raw honey. This is an extremely high fiber diet.  Consume this daily for a few days, or if you need a further cleansing, every morning for a month. It will dredge out lots of unwanted stuff from your system, both in the colon and other systems.

Cinnamon and Ginger heat up the body, and help in a detoxification process.

 

TWP Warming Soup

This soup is extremely nourishing and quick to make:

Any selection of sliced/chopped organic fresh good looking vegetables such as carrots, potato, celery, or whatever is in season.

Any kind of organic flesh food with bones, or wild caught fish skeleton meaning you must including the bones

1/2 cup hijiki and/or 1/2 cup wakame

1 T organic vinegar (apple cider, rice, etc)

Put all in large soup pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil, then turn down to a simmer. Season to taste with organic herbs and kosher salt. Remember to include fresh grated ginger, fresh minced cilantro and cayenne or habenero. Other spices to include can be thyme, oregano, basil, mustard powder, fresh minced garlic chives, organic soy sauce.

If you have the time, let this simmer for a while, which will allow the calcium to migrate from the bones to the broth.

 

Soothing Soap

If you have sensitive skin, you may easily get contact dermatitis. If so, avoid any contact with solvents, fragrances, perfumes, and use hypoallergenic laundry detergent and fabric softener. Jean recommends that you use Seventh Generation products or a similar brand that tends to have fewer manufactured chemicals and more plant extracts in their composition/formula.

To bathe you can use  Bronner's Liquid Castille soap.

If you have open lesions, you might not need soap at all. Dry off thoroughly when you exit your bath or show.

 

Regarding wheat, gluten, and yeast

Do you have a high blood sugar problem? Or a sensitivity to wheat? Many individuals feel unwell eating wheat, gluten, yeast, sugars and other high glycemic foods

It's not that complex, and it's free. Just try it for, say 7 to 20 days. That means zero foods and beverages with sugar, high fructose corn syrup, wheat, beer, gluten and yeast. See if you feel better avoiding these products. If you do, then just do that, avoid consuming wheat, gluten, beer, yeast, bread and items which may trigger a new problem.

 

Many years ago Jean co-authored a book with her friend Joy, full of recipes for making healthy delicious meals. It is now out of print but will be made available upon request.

Jean still offers Chinese Herbal Supplements to her patients and to TCM professionals for their patients, each one customized and based on TCM theory.