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  • Discussed in a 2017 National Geographic article[0], archived here[1]. Notice the article text's description of the honey being sold on the black market. Seems that now everyone is shopping there.

    [0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/honey-hu...

    [1] https://archive.is/Xdd01

    That said, clinicians have been writing about this for some time, eg [2] from 2007:

    [2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17540490/

    by kjellsbells
  • Joe Rogan endorses consuming mad honey according to the copy on this site: https://realmadhoney.com/products/mad-honey-us. So there is an entire supply chain from Nepal to the consumer.
    by measurablefunc
  • They mention the toxin comes from the rhododendron flower. I remember camping in North Carolina once and one of the people I was with warned against burning anything from the rhododendron in the area, as supposedly the smoke would give you the runs.

    I mostly thought they were joking, and I have no idea what specific type of rhododendron would be there (if any), but maybe there’s a glimmer of merit to it? Or maybe they were thinking of a different plant?

    This was somewhere in the Blue Ridge Mountains, if I remember correctly.

    by nkrisc
  • If anyone's interested there's also this recently released documentary in french by Hit the Road, where they show the process of collecting the honey and also the ritual side of it.

    https://youtu.be/r-jZyTP4K4g

    by liaym
  • Old Vice documentary about it. This is where I had first heard about it. Used to be really hard to find the honey online, like only one or 2 places that sold it

    https://youtu.be/wDOvmhqvIA8

    by NDlurker
  • For you guys that watch YouTube. The channel is Mass Spec Everything. Here are a couple of interesting videos he did on various honey brands and regions. Pretty interesting stuff.

    https://youtu.be/FTaRFX4bKhI

    https://youtu.be/FCFtVu6hFdw

    by AstroNutt
  • >Eat a teaspoonful, and you might feel pleasantly warm and slightly lightheaded. Eat more than a few tablespoons, and your heart rate can drop to life-threatening levels.

    Reminds me of the Futurama episode with the space bee honey. Wonder if the writers got the inspiration from this.

    by robotnikman
  • This is the original article and has better images IMHO.

    https://theconversation.com/mad-honey-that-can-stop-your-hea...

    by pigbearpig

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