This is the first NFT in my Chinese Medicine series.

I captured this rare moment of magic as I completed the grinding and compounding process of this tonic formula for the blood and qi. Remarkably, it illustrates aspects of qi, blood, Shen, Yi, Po, Zhi, Hun and Ling all at the same time.

Moments such as these last but an instant. Even if you happen to notice them they come and go quickly and transparently as the mind immediately dismisses, edits, categorizes, rationalizes and sequesters them into a forbidden, forgotten zone of the irrational.

Real medicine is much more than the sum of its parts. It conveys to the patient both physical and subtle dimensions of health, healing and purpose that s/he has forgotten how to access by her/himself. This is medicine’s value, magic and utility. When multidimensionality is absent or removed from medicine, it loses its significance and necessity. Indeed, it becomes the very opposite of what it was originally intended to be.

It is my hope that through illustrating the beauty and subtlety of Chinese medicine and other traditional medicines we can begin to revivify, reanimate and return medicine to its natural state.