Lupulinum
Made from the hop's lupulin — the yellow powder of the brewer's flower, a genuine sedative of real modern evidence, and the classical remedy of the nervous sleeplessness.
The whole picture, in one breath
Think of nerves too twitchy for sleep: nervous irritability with sleeplessness, the genital oversensitivity of the proving, the restlessness of the books' hop chapter, and the yellow powder the brewer shakes from his flowers. The brewer's-sedative remedy: that is Lupulinum.
The substance, in plain words
Lupulin is the yellow powder dusted from the brewer's hop flowers — the bitter resins that flavour the beer and genuinely calm the nervous system: humulone and lupulone are studied sedatives with real, if modest, modern evidence, and the hop pillow is a folk sleep-aid of long standing. The proving gave the powder the sleepless-irritability portrait.
The traditional picture Classical sources
The inner state
- Nervous irritability before sleep. The keynote of the mind: the twitchy, irritable over-wakefulness — the nervous system's refusal to dismount.
- Anxiety and fear. Worry and dread, worse in the quiet hours.
- Despondency. Gloomy in the chronic, sleepless states.
The body
- Sleeplessness of nervousness. The keynote: the sleeplessness of the over-wrought nerve — the books' hop use.
- Genital oversensitivity. The proving's genital chapter — the oversensitivity and excitement of the books.
- Restlessness and twitching. The books add the restless, twitching limbs of the nervous state.
- Headache of nervousness. The congestive headache riding the sleeplessness.
- Worse the quiet and the evening. Solitude and evening bring the state on.
- Better for open air and company. Fresh air and gentle company ease the twitchy nerve.
Modalities (worse and better factors)
| Worse from ⬇ | Better from ⬇ |
|---|---|
| the quiet and evening; emotional excitement; night; suppressed discharges. | open air; company; warmth. |
Where it acts (organ affinities)
Mind and sleep, nervous system, genital organs, general vitality.
Where the classical picture comes from
The brewer's powder's proving gave the sleepless-irritability portrait; Lupulinum became the classical remedy of the twitchy, sleepless nerve — the hop's yellow dust serving the nervous system it brewers have long used it to calm.
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.
The hop's resins are genuinely studied: humulone and lupulone have documented sedative and calming effects in laboratory research, and the hop pillow's folk use for sleep has real chemistry behind it — modest but honest. The brewer's flower is one of the few folk sedatives modern pharmacology takes seriously at all.
Look-alikes (how the classical authors told it apart)
| Remedy | Looks similar because… | Tells it apart because… |
|---|---|---|
| Passiflora incarnata | The calmatives | Passiflora is the gentle over-wrought one; Lupulinum the twitchy, irritable one of the brewer's shelf. |
| Valeriana officinalis | Nervous sleeplessness | Valeriana is the changeable hysterical trembler; Lupulinum the twitchy brewer of the same sedative shelf. |
| Coffea cruda | Sleepless over-stimulation | Coffea is the joy-racing brightness; Lupulinum the irritable over-wakefulness. |
| Ambra grisea | Company-shy nervousness | Ambra cannot bear company; Lupulinum is better for it. |