Rashmi Kandel and the Rise of Nepal’s Mad Honey Business

Rashmi Kandel and the Rise of Nepal’s Mad Honey Business

Throughout centuries the ethnic group of Gurung people in Nepal’s Himalayan foothills cliff area collected the powerful honey form known as mad honey. Mad honey contains grayanotoxins from rhododendron flowers which shows multiple properties as both sweetener and cultural centuries-old practice along with medical properties and psychedelic characteristics. Through the vision and business sense of Rashmi Kandel a Nepali woman has taken the locall…