Shivering with deadly honey, it could drive the army crazy

Sweet honey dies flies. But this evil honey also robbed people of their lives, even defeating an army with its formidable toxicity.

Maybe you don't know, honey has many types, and none of them are the same. Although the same bees, each flower can produce another type of honey. There is honey, honey, even some kind of smell . cat urine.

And even, there are very high levels of bile, which can be deadly. Crazy honey is one of them.

There are very high levels of bile, which can cause death.

What is "crazy" honey?

This type of bile is taken from the nectar of Rhododendron ponticum (a species of azaleas) and some other highly toxic plants. "Crazy" bile often occurs in North America, Europe, and the East Sea, Nepal and Japan.

This type of bile is more bitter than regular honey. More toxic when harvested in the spring because this is the blooming season of azaleas.

This purple flower is the source of the dead honey.

In Turkey, "crazy" honey is used for a remedy called deli bal , which can treat high blood pressure, diabetes and stomach disease. With strong hallucinogenic properties, this type of bile is also used by Nepalese Gurung community as a stimulant, stimulating agent.

However, if overdose is used, the user may be poisoned, even die. And in the history of war, this deadly honey was used as an effective weapon.

The weapon that makes the whole army go crazy

There were quite a number of troops who had been victims of this honey, such as Xenophon's army - Greek general in 401 BC.

Historian Adrienne Mayor of Stanford University, who has many research projects on biochemical weapons, recalled: "In 401 BC, Xenophon led a army of ten thousand Persians back to their homeland. On the way of operation , his army rested in the Pontus area on the Black Sea coast, northeast of Turkey. "

"Here, soldiers find a lot of beehives, so they take the honey to drink."

Soon after, Xenophon is stunned when he finds many of his soldiers go crazy and collapsed, while others are numb and lose their fighting ability. Fortunately, Xenophon's army was able to regain consciousness before the enemy came.

Pompey - the old Roman general is not so lucky. In 65 BC, Pompey led his army to the right of Pontus, where in the old year Xenophon's soldiers suffered. They also found a lot of honeycomb and collected honey, without knowing that it was an enemy trap.

In the doldrums, more than a thousand Roman soldiers were ambushed and killed.

Pompey's army must experience a "sweet" defeat .

This sweet weapon also has a "variation" of honey wine . Wine is made from fermented honey with water, mixing with fruits and spices. And again at the place where the tracks of Xenophon and Pompey were dumped, honey wine was brought into the war.

According to Mayor, in modern warfare, this move still does not lose its effect."The scenario is that thanks to the allies giving food to the enemy, our troops ambush and attack when the enemy is poisoned" - she added.