Paracetamolum

Acetaminophen; N-acetyl-para-aminophenol (APAP); 4-acetamidophenol; para-hydroxyacetanilide. Molecular formula C8H9NO2, MW 151.16 g/mol, CAS 103-90-2, PubChem CID 1983, DrugBank DB00316. · Paracetamol, Acetaminophen, Tylenol, Panadol, Calpol, APAP

Modern MM

A modern drug remedy with no formal proving. Its sphere of action is inferred from paracetamol toxicology under the Law of Similars: liver (centrilobular necrosis), the gastric/digestive sphere (nausea, anorexia, vomiting), and the febrile state. Used chiefly as a contemporary remedy concept and for tautopathic clearing of paracetamol effects rather than from a settled symptom picture.

Key symptoms

No keynotes from a formal proving exist for Paracetamolum. The toxicological picture that would guide any similimum use is: anorexia, nausea and vomiting in the early phase; right-upper-quadrant (liver) pain; later jaundice, bleeding tendency (coagulopathy) and mental confusion from hepatic failure. These are documented poisoning features (Merck Manual, StatPearls, Wikipedia), NOT proven mind/particular symptoms.

Worse (aggravation)

No proving-derived modalities exist. Toxicologically the clinical state worsens progressively over 24-96 hours after a large ingestion.

Better (amelioration)

No proving-derived modalities. The conventional toxicological antidote is N-acetylcysteine; this is allopathic pharmacology, not a homeopathic modality.

Manohar V Nagaiah

Materia Medica of Modern Homeopathic Medicine · 2026

Paracetamol, Acetaminophen, Tylenol, Panadol, Calpol, APAP

Source & Nature

Paracetamolum is the homeopathic preparation of paracetamol (acetaminophen, APAP), the most widely used analgesic-antipyretic drug in the world and a constituent of hundreds of over-the-counter pain and cold preparations. It is a white crystalline para-aminophenol derivative, molecular formula C8H9NO2, molecular weight 151.16 g/mol, CAS 103-90-2, PubChem CID 1983, DrugBank DB00316.

In homeopathic pharmacy it is also catalogued as Acetaminophen, 4-Acetamidophenol, p-Acetylamidophenol and p-Hydroxyacetanilid.

Preparation

Prepared per the German Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HAB 2018). As paracetamol is poorly water-soluble, lower potencies are triturated with lactose and then carried into a hydro-alcoholic dilution for higher stages. Remedia lists D3-D200, C3-C200 and Korsakovian 1MK/10MK; globules are saccharose-based.

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