ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 5月23日 11時45分

Photo by @renan_ozturk -

Caption by @m_synnott -

Sweet Poison. "When I first started selling wild honey, the price was extremely high," says Jenge, the local Kulung trader who has always managed the Sadhi honey hunters. "Then someone in Korea ate too much and died. That killed the market." -

The psychotropic effects of the honey result from graynotoxins in the flowers of the local rhododendron trees, which bloom on north facing hillsides each April. -
The "correct" dose varies according to the strength of the honey. This year's harvest: 1/4 teaspoon. According to Jenge, once administered you have a few minutes before you are overcome with an urgent need to defecate, urinate and vomit. "Normally we have to see a doctor to get bad things taken out of our bodies," says Jenge, "but the honey does this for us. That's why we take it." -

After the purge, "you alternate between light and dark. You can see and then you can't see." A sound, which Jenge describes as "jam jam jam" pulses, like the drone of a bee hive, in your head. Then you lose all motor function. "The paralysis lasts for a day or so," says Jenge. -

This morning, Jenge gave us each a small plastic Coke bottle full of the milky orange honey. The question is - who will be the first in our group to give it a try? -

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