This Pang Da Hai/Semen Sterculiae Lychnophorae NFT embodies a number of ideas that bear some explanation: This herb is Sweet, Cold and enters the Hand Tai Yin Lung and Hand Yang Ming Large Intestine Jing-channels. This Biao Li relationship covers both the Yin and Yang dimensions of the Metal element.

Pang Da Hai/Semen Sterculiae Lychnophorae is therefore used to treat heat and/or Fire that is affecting the Metal channels because its Sweet and Cold nature generates fluids and quells pathogenic Fire.

I placed the Greek war helmet here with this herb to represent metal and all that we have done with it and since the Trojan war. This was the war that ended the Age of the Gods and marked the beginning of the Age of Man, a war from which we have never recovered, whose archetypal energies have spun out and iterated over the centuries to create all of European history and its devastating and ongoing rampage over humanity and the face of the Earth. In my view, until we can correct and mend the many errors of our ways that began on the bloody plains of Troy, we will continue to re-enact our mistakes for all of time, perpetually doomed to fall ever-backward even as we believe we are making ‘progress’ and moving ‘forward.’

Perhaps this NFT, in calling this energy for what it is, can make a small step in this direction.