When bees feed on the pollen of rhododendron flowers, the resulting honey can pack a hallucinogenic punch.It’s called mad honey, and it has a slightly bitter taste and a reddish color. More notably, a few types of rhododendrons, among them Rhododendron luteum and Rhododendron ponticum, contain grayanotoxin, which can cause dramatic physiological reactions in humans and animals. Depending on how much a person consumes, reactions can range from hallucinations and a slower heartbeat to temporary paralysis and unconsciousness.Mad honey has a long history attached to it, as with other traditional medicines.It begins with mad honey being harvested in the province of Trabzon in Turkey, and continues alongside Turkey’s 18th Century trading tradition.
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