This post is for the doubters that this substance is used to get “high” or can actually be extracted and consumed by a human.
https://erowid.org/chemicals/adrenochrome/adrenochrome_info1.shtml
Entry in Adam Gottlieb's Legal Highs (1973):
ADRENOCHROME SEMICARBAZONE -- 3-hydroxy-1-methyl-5,6-indolinedione semicarbazone.
Material: Oxidized epinephrine (adrenaline) with semicarbazide.
Usage: 100 mg is thoroughly dissolved in just enough alcohol, melted fat (butter), or vegetable oil and ingested. Because of its poor solubility in water these must be used to aid absorption.
Effects: Physical stimulating, feeling of well-being, slight reduction of thought processes.
Contraindications: None noted.
Acts as a systemic hemostatic preventing capillary bleeding during injury. Adrenochrome causes chemically induced schizophrenia. Its semicarbazone does not.
Supplier: CS.
Emphasis mine.
More from the same link proving that the body produces more adrenochrome when it is either under stress or cannot properly breakdown into by-products. Also, the substance is also considered a hallucinogen which is a commonly sought after “high”.
In Diet & Neurotoxins, by Gabriel Cousens, MD (2000):
Connection To Schizophrenia
For example, two of these metabolic neurotoxins--adrenolutin and adrenochrome--breakdown products from the body's own epinephrine. Both are associated with biochemically based schizophrenia. Adrenochrome is a hallucinogen which also inhibits nerve cell transmission. If the body is making an excess of adrenochrome, from either stress or a poor biochemical ability to break it down into harmless by-products, we have the potential for brain dysfunction. A slowly emerging awareness from the scientific literature suggests there are a number of brain disturbances that are related to the accumulation of various neurotoxins in the brain.
Again, emphasis mine.
Note that the last quotes section is from a study in the year 2000.
This relates to Pizzagate because adrenochrome is allegedly extracted from victims of abuse. This link and studies prove that the substance can be used to become “high” and is also created more abundantly when the subject is under stress.
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Are_we_sure ago
I don't think your posts give any evidence about its extraction. Adrenochrome can be made it a test tube by oxidizing adrenaline. You can just mix it with something like silver oxide. It's also widely available in the medical research market. Here's one of the places that sell it http://www.chemical-pharma.com/pharma-material/Adrenochrome.html
Adrenaline was synthesized in a lab well over a 100 years ago. It's a myth you need to extract it from the human body and it would be very difficult to do. It breaks down very quickly when exposed to moisture or heat or light. If you have a solution of it and you have it in the freezer, it lasts about half a day.
ADRENOCHROME SEMICARBAZONE is a derivative of Adrenochrome. it's different from pure adrenochrome. Semicarbazone has a specific meaning in chemstiry. This substance is also known as Carbazochrome.
Carbazachrome is an anti-hemorrhage agent. It's used in research right now and may in the future be used in humans.
On the same site you link to other folks detail their experiences with it and it's not really a good high. There are much more widely available drugs you use and get a better experience from. Mescalin, LSD, Peyote, etc all come to mind.
I believe the connection to schizophrenia is no longer believed to be true.
everlastingphelps ago
The thing to keep in mind is that the hypothesis is that these are related to rituals much older than the last century. Even if it could be created artificially today, that doesn't mean that the mythos behind the rituals doesn't still enthrall the devotees.