Crazy Honey – Poison From The Himalayas

Just eat a teaspoon of crazy honey, you can see hallucinations. More than that, you will be poisoned or even lose your life.
Crazy honey - poison from the Himalayas
Dark red mad honey contains the toxin grayanotoxin from a rare azalea that grows scattered in southern Turkey, the Caucasus and Nepal. The world has more than 700 varieties of azaleas, but only about two or three have grayanotoxin in nectar.
Azaleas containing poisonous nectar can also be found in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa or some US states

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One of the oldest records of mad honey is that of the Athenian historian Xenophon, which recounts the trip with Greek soldiers marching through Turkey in 401 BC. These people eat honey from beehives along the way A few hours later, the team vomited, had diarrhea, lost direction and was unable to stand, but all went back to normal the next day.




However, a Roman army was not so lucky. In 67 BC, General Pompey the Great led his army in pursuit of Persian king Mithradates VI along the Black Sea coast of present-day Turkey. They encountered a lot of honey pots on the side of the road and did not even know it was a trap. After eating honey, the Roman soldiers were unable to fight back when the Persians arrived. It can be said that this is the first chemical weapon in history.
The journey of hunting crazy honey is even more dangerous than eating this specialty. Photo: ScoopWhoop
Although it contains toxins, crazy honey has been used by the people of Nepal or Turkey for thousands of years as a medicine to cure diarrhea, high blood pressure, treat arthritis pain and help a couple's life.



flower. They believe that eating at least one teaspoon of honey annually is needed to improve resistance. Locals even boil honey with milk and drink a little before every breakfast.
If you have the opportunity to visit Nepal, ask the locals to try this specialty. But be careful when enjoying, do not spread honey on bread, or sprinkled on yogurt or eat like normal honey. A small spoonful on the tip of your tongue is more than enough, otherwise you could become one of the annual honey poisoning tourists.
Crazy honey costs about 120 - 160 USD per kilogram on the black market. Photo: Interesting Engineering.




In 2016, David Caprara, Vice reporter, accompanied the Gurung Aboriginal people to hunt for crazy honey. As soon as he tasted about two teaspoons of honey just inspired by the nest, David felt extremely euphoric like sniffing marijuana, and a few honey hunters fainted. Luckily, no one was vomiting or had any dangerous symptoms.
A Hong Kong man was poisoned by this specialty in 2017. About 45 minutes after eating a spoonful of crazy honey you bought from Nepal, the victim gasped, lost feeling and weakened. one day hospital stay for treatment.
According to Bao Ngoc / Vnexpress
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