Honey and its amazing medical benefits bring to mind how amazingly incredible products brought to us by Mother Nature’s versatility. One such product, Mad Honey Nepal is regular honey but an amped-up version.

Though known as hallucinogenic honey it is known by different names, in the different countries where it is known as deli bal in Turkey. Its origins and traditions stem from medicinal purposes through the traditional medicine men of the then villages and still do in some smaller rural villages.

The Rhododendron flower

Extracted from the Rhododendron flower, mad honey has hallucinogenic properties. The process starts on the Himalayan hills where farming the honey naturally produced from the Rhododendron flower enriched with the hallucinogen Grayanotoxin, where it gets its name Mad Honey Nepal. Family-based companies who commercialized the original mad honey did so as a dedication to keeping the traditions alive of the Gurung tribes and offering authentic mad honey for their customers

Apislaboriosa bees

Extracting the honey on the slopes of the Himalayan mountains at altitudes of 3000 meters from the wild bee (the giant Apislaboriosa) hives which are only found in Nepal. These bees extract the toxins from Nepal’s national plant the Rhododendron flower and are 100% pure containing no carcinogens, foreign substances or harmful additives.

The Gurungs

The Gurung, also known as Tamu, are the so-called farmers of this Nepalese Gold and claim they don’t just do it for the money, but as to keep the centuries-old tradition alive that has been passed down from generation to generation.

Being the ethnic groups in the various regions in Nepal they have to sometimes risk life and limb climbing high up into the steep Himalayan hills in search of the highly valued Apislaboriosa, the worlds largest honey bee, just to get to the honey. The Gurung and their exploits became world-famous through two documentaries aired on BBC in 2008 and the other in Vice magazine in 2016

In Closing

The combination and symbiosis of the wild honey’s great taste and all the only natural ingredients and the fact that everything is done straightforward and elementary will make nothing stop or prevent you from enjoying the Himalayan honey’s great taste.

Trying this delicacy now will give you an experience of pleasure and a taste found in no other product. Pure-Tasting natural honey with an indescribable taste which can only be tried in Nepal is the reason it is called Nepalese Gold.