Potion science may change from the original decoction-making subject to an experimental subject with technology and theory separated.

The high-level potion principles of cracking, abstracting, and integrating magical elements and material symbols are likely to gradually become basic teaching content. Under such circumstances, it is obviously not appropriate to continue to spend a lot of energy on past potions. It was a wise choice. Before get out of class, he assigned a lot of homework just as Elena had guessed, asking the students to classify hundreds of potion materials according to their own understanding.

However, compared to the situation in the Herbology class, Potions is relatively easy.

"Everyone's energy is limited, and what is more precious than energy is time," Professor Sprout said seriously. "Seven years is really too short compared to the growth cycle of many magical plants.

.I think we should adopt a classification and induction method to systematically learn the properties of some herbal medicines, and then focus more on studying those important special cases that need to be classified. By the way, please remember to remember them next time in class.

Bring parchment, notebooks, and quills - we may have to learn some new knowledge beyond the textbooks..."

In 1408, Phyllida Spoor, the then headmaster of Hogwarts, died of poisonous mushrooms.

The portrait of this "Hogwarts version of Shennong" still hangs on the wall of the principal's office. Last year, he briefly exchanged ideas with Elena about cooking ash snakes, and she left behind "Thousand Species" when she was alive.

Miraculous Herbs and Mushrooms" has become the first manual of herbal medicine for later generations.

More than five centuries have passed, and the Herbology textbook for grades one to five at Hogwarts is still "A Thousand Miraculous Herbs and Fungi."

If compared to the botany community in the non-magical world of the East, it is roughly equivalent to the "Compendium of Materia Medica" being the only designated teaching book.

Of course, to be more rigorous, "Compendium of Materia Medica" was actually written nearly two hundred years later than "A Thousand Miraculous Herbs and Mushrooms".

As with Transfiguration and Magizoology, for centuries it was generally believed that the main edifice of Herbology had been repaired long ago, leaving little more than side work - at best, in the pages of A Thousand Magic Herbs and Fungi.

Basically, if you add one or two newly discovered magical herbs or mushrooms in the future, or add some new cultivation methods to the previous content, there will be no knowledge worth updating.

Pomona Sprout once thought so too.

Even if her best friend and former school girl Minerva McGonagall successfully shook the edifice of transfiguration, she still believed that just like Newt Scamander filled in the last big piece of the puzzle in the field of magical animals

In that way, the study of herbal medicine came to an end hundreds of years ago.

Until last night...

Or earlier, at best, sometime last week.

Several Muggle names that Sprout had never heard of suddenly appeared in her world.

Carl von Linnaeus, Nehemiah Grew, Hales Stephen, Charles Darwin, Regal Mendel...

As these unfamiliar names appeared on her desk, as well as the thick papers signed with these names, Professor Sprout suddenly discovered that, unknowingly, the British non-magical community had great influence on plants and herbal medicines.

Research has already entered a whole new world.

Then, what she has to do is very simple - make up for the five hundred years of missing courses for the magic world!

————

————
Chapter completed!