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Articles by eoin@realmadhoney.com
Mad Honey Poisoning: Symptoms and What to Do
Grayanotoxin poisoning is rarely fatal but it is genuinely dangerous, and it does not look like ordinary food poisoning. The pattern is a slowing heart, falling blood pressure, sweating and dizziness, sometimes hours after the honey was eaten.
Mad Honey Effects: What Is Normal, What Is Not
Tingling lips and a warm face turn up in almost every account. Fainting, a heart rate that keeps dropping and vomiting that will not stop do not belong on the same list.
Grayanotoxin Explained
Grayanotoxins are a family of related plant compounds, not a single chemical, and their action is on voltage-gated sodium channels in nerve and muscle cells.
Mad Honey Batch Variability: Why It Changes
Two jars from the same hillside in the same season can differ several-fold in grayanotoxin content. This piece walks through the reasons.
What Is Mad Honey?
Rhododendron nectar carries grayanotoxins into the comb, and a honey that behaves like a drug comes out the other end.
Mad Honey vs Manuka
They get shelved together as special honeys and compared on price, which is the wrong axis entirely. The difference is not degree, it is kind.
How to Tell If Mad Honey Is Real
What can actually be checked on a jar, a label and a lab report, and where looking stops being useful.
The Gurung Honey Hunters
Reported from two districts in central Nepal over three harvest seasons: who climbs, how the teams are organised, and what the practice is worth to a village now.