If you aspire to learn about herbs, not only their names and physical properties but also their incredible healing powers, you might consider keeping a digital journal like this one or/and a paper journal that pleases you to work with. The reason I suggest this is so you can keep track of your journey. It's an intensely personal relationship you will have with herbs.
Yes, you can certainly be a botanist or medical anthropologist, or any number of "-ists." If so, you might not be impressed with my discoveries. But my path has been intuitive from the beginning. I don't weigh or measure things all that much. I go by what the herbs tell me and what feels right. My only advice to you is to be true to yourself and to trust yourself. If you've been trained or feel the need to weigh and measure and work with meticulous care, then by all means, go with that.
Certainly, indiginous people learned what they know through their senses, their intuitions, their dreams, and other timeless ways of knowing. They had no laboratories. The learned by trial and error. And they survived and thrived without any help from the so-called "civlized" world. Some, like the Australian aboriginals, have been on Earth for over 40,000 years. And they didn't need penicillin or Ritalin to carry their generations forward through the millennia.
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