Dr. Diego Bohórquez

So that's why I said from the biological perspective, like how can we reconcile that?

I think that there is still quite a bit to learn.

Yes, and that's why I said like this is more on the anthropological studies that have, you know, especially from scientists that have gone there, learned the language, live with the natives as natives, you know, and then start to understand the dynamic of their culture and their interactions.

then that's when, like for instance, how it is that they classify plants.

The way that they classify plants is like several levels more richer than our classification, our scientific classification by the two name system or the variety, right?

Like for instance, they take into account not only the flavor, but also the shape, the location,

how they interact over the year, how they react over the year.

For instance, there is this beautiful plant that people call it the lips plant.

I don't know if you have, but if you Google it, you will see it.

It looks like lips?

Literally like lips.

It has like these red, beautiful lips, like the plant.

It just looks like lips.

And then people use it for pain, for some rashes, skin rashes, and also like in some rituals.

And like most of these plants, the way that the natives interact with the plants is in a sacred level.

You know, there is this respect for the plant, right?

So yeah, I think that biologically, I think that there is quite a bit in there too.

understand and explore and define.

I do agree with you that just thinking about grinding it up and just putting it in a tip perhaps is too reductionist.

It could be a beginning of understanding, but it is reductionist.