Mad honey (English "mad honey") is so called for its unpredictable effects on the human and animal body.
Xenophontus, an ancient Greek writer, historian and military leader in his 4th century BC work "Anabasis" wrote in his work. "Anabasis" wrote about a strange disease that seized his army after consuming local honey in Eastern Turkey. And A. Wallace Hayes' Principles and Methods of Toxicology claims that King Mithridates used honey as a poison when Pompey's army attacked the Heptacometes in Asia Minor in 69 B.C. Roman soldiers became delirious and nauseous after being tricked into eating poisonous honey, after which Mithridates' army attacked.
Pliny the Elder in his Natural History wrote: "...In the same part of Pontus, there is another kind of honey, which, because of the madness it produces, has received the name of 'mænomenon'. This malignant action is usually attributed to the rhododendron flowers, which ab…