Adrenalinum
The remedy prepared from adrenaline itself — the hormone of the fight-or-flight that modern medicine injects to reverse anaphylaxis and restart the heart.
The whole picture, in one breath
Think of the body in full alarm: pounding heart, surging blood to the head and chest, trembling and anxiety, the sensation of great congestion and pressure — the portrait of the adrenaline flood, recorded as a remedy. The alarm-hormone remedy: that is Adrenalinum.
The substance, in plain words
Adrenaline — epinephrine — is the body's own alarm hormone, released by the adrenal gland in terror and effort. Modern medicine made it the most important emergency injection on earth: the auto-injector that reverses anaphylaxis in minutes, the drug that restarts the arrested heart. The proving gave the remedy the hormone's own portrait.
The traditional picture Classical sources
The inner state
- Anxiety of the alarm. The keynote of the mind: the fear and trembling of the body in alarm — anxiety with the pounding heart.
- Restlessness. Cannot settle, must move, the alarm running through every limb.
- Fear of death. The terror of the emergency state, worse at night.
The body
- Pounding heart. The keynote: violent palpitations with the sensation of the heart forcing its blood — the hormone's own action.
- Congestion of head and chest. Surging blood to the head and chest, flushing, throbbing carotids.
- Trembling and weakness. The trembling of the alarm, followed by the weakness after it passes.
- Asthma-like oppression. The books use it in the suffocative, congested breathing of the alarm constitution.
- Worse exertion and emotion. Effort and excitement trigger the flood.
- Better for rest and quiet. Rest and quiet let the alarm subside.
Modalities (worse and better factors)
| Worse from ⬇ | Better from ⬇ |
|---|---|
| exertion; emotional excitement; cold; the least effort. | rest; quiet; warmth. |
Where it acts (organ affinities)
Heart and circulation, nervous system, respiration, general vitality.
Where the classical picture comes from
The hormone's proving gave the alarm-flood portrait; Adrenalinum became the classical remedy of the body in full alarm — and its source chemistry became, within decades, the most important emergency injection in medicine.
The substance in real medicine Pharmacology
What this section is: the pharmacology and toxicology of the source substance. It is not clinical evidence that a homeopathic preparation of it treats any condition. What controlled trials do and do not show is set out on the Evidence page.
Epinephrine is genuinely among the most important drugs ever deployed: invented as a synthetic in 1904, it reverses anaphylaxis within minutes, restarts arrested hearts, and sits in every ambulance, school and clinic on earth as the auto-injector. No molecule in this library has a more direct, daily, life-saving modern career than the hormone of this remedy.
Look-alikes (how the classical authors told it apart)
| Remedy | Looks similar because… | Tells it apart because… |
|---|---|---|
| Aconitum napellus | Alarm and terror | Aconite is the sudden terror after fright; Adrenalinum the hormone's own flood. |
| Glonoinum | Surging blood | Glonoinum surges to the head after the sun; Adrenalinum pounds with the alarm. |
| Cactus grandiflorus | Heart constriction | Cactus is the iron band; Adrenalinum the pounding flood of the hormone itself. |
| Arsenicum album | Anxious restlessness | Arsenicum is the chilly midnight anxiety; Adrenalinum the alarm of the hormone. |