*Rhododendron ponticum*, Turcicus mellis insani fons
**Mel insanum** seu **furens** seu **maenomenon**, comestores ad inebrietatem vel incapacitatem stimulans, ab *Apibus *e.g.* melliferis* producitur qui flores grayanotoxinum continentes pabulantur, inter quas *Eubotryoides grayana* Iaponiae, *Rhododendron arboreum* Nepaliae, *R. luteum* et *R. ponticum* Turciae. Mel ibi in agris Trapezuntinis colligitur. In Nepalia ab *Apibus dorsatis laboriosis* producitur, a populis Gurung et Kulung colligitur.

*Leucothoe grayana*, Iaponicus fons mellis insani
Mercennarii Cyri iunioris qui cum Xenophonte post annum 401 a.C.n. Graeciam petebant et iuxta Trapezuntem Pontum Euxinum attingerunt mel insanum in itinere gustaverant:

Apum multa fuerunt alvearia, favis refertissima. Ex iis quicunque edissent statim mente commovebantur, iidemque et vomebant et excernebant, neque stare omnino quisquam poterat. Ac qui minus ederant temulentis simillimi reddebantur; qui plus aliquanto furentibus; multi etiam moribundis. Tam multi autem iacebant ut ab hostibus fusi viderentur, quae res effecerat ut plane omnes animum desponderent. At postero die eadem fere hora qua fuerant eo clamitatis genere affecti, resipiscere coeperunt. Tertio deinde ac quarto, ut hi solent qui medicamentum potarint, se erexerunt (Xenophon, *Anabasis* 4.8.20-21).
Illis rebus fidei dignis a testi oculari relatis, Strabo bellorum Mithridaticorum strategema haud dissimile describit:

Heptacometae tres Pompeii cohortes ontruncarunt dum montana pertransirent. Miscentes enim crateras furentis mellis, quod rami arborum ferunt, potos et mente alienatos adorti facile interemerunt (Strabo, *Geographica* 12.3.18).

Notae
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1. ↑  Ita recentiores multi, e.g. Iohann Daniel Geyers, *Gute Gedancken ... XV Diskurs* (Dresdae, 1735) (fasc. 15 p. 26 apud *Google Books*)
2. 1 2  Strabo, *Geographica*:versio Latina Guarini Veronensis et Gregorii Trifernatis
3. ↑  Plinius, *Naturalis historia* 21.77
4. ↑  Versio Latina Romuli Amasaei

Bibliographia
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*Rhododendron arboreum* sub montibus Himalayis florens
Generalia
* Abdulkadir Gunduz, Suleyman Turedi, Hikmet Oksuz, "The Honey, The Poison, The Weapon" in *Wilderness & Environmental Medicine* vol. 22 (2011) pp. 182–184

De collectu
* Bethan McKernan, "Creating a buzz: Turkish beekeepers risk life and limb to make mad honey" in *The Guardian* (16 Ianuarii 2020)
* Mark Synnott, "Au Népal, la récolte à haut risque du miel hallucinogène" in *National Geographic* (2017)

De effectu
* "High on ‘mad honey’: intoxicated brown bear cub rescued in Turkey" in *The Guardian* (11 Augusti 2022)
* Gökhan Aksel et al. "Deli Bal Zehirlenmesi: Olgu Sunumu" in *CausaPedia* vol. 3 (2014) p. 790 ff.
* Ahmet Demircan et al. "Mad Honey Sex: Therapeutic Misadventures From an Ancient Biological Weapon" in *Annals of Emergency Medicine* vol. 54 (2009)
* Faik Koca, İlkay Koca, Ahmet Koca, "Poisoning by mad honey: A brief review" in *Food and Chemical Toxicology* (2007)
* Tirtha Man Shrestha et al. "Cardiovascular, psychiatric, and neurological phenomena seen in mad honey disease: A clinical case report" in *Wiley Clinical Case Reports* (2018)
* Hacer Gök Uğur et al. "Investigation of mad honey use as an alternative treatment in patients admitted to the pulmonary clinic: Ordu, Turkey example" in *Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology* vol. 62 (2019)
* Selcuk Yaylacı et al. "Mad honey poisoning accompanied by hypotension and bradycardia" in *Sakarya Medical Journal* vol. 73 (2011)

Nexus externi
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* "Miel hallucinogène" (11 Octobris 2018) apud *Beely.fr*