The invention belongs to the technical field of composite medicine materials as well as a preparation method and application thereof, more particularly discloses a nanoparticle for embedding medicinal Adriamycin. The nanoparticle has a core-shell type structure with an inner core embedded by an outer shell, wherein the inner core is embedded medicinal adriamycin, and the material for the outer shell is silicon dioxide; and the preparation method of the nanoparticle comprises the following steps of: evenly mixing cyclohexane, a surfactant and n-hexylalcohol, adding a sodium fluoride solution into the mixed solution after being evenly mixed to form a reverse-phase microemulsion; adding adriamycin and tetraethoxysilane into the reverse-phase microemulsion, and reacting to obtain a nanoparticle microemulsion system for embedding the adriamycin; adding a silylanization reagent containing functional groups into the microemulsion system, stirring for reacting, adding ethanol and demulsifying, centrifuging and then preparing the nanoparticle for embedding the medicinal adriamycin and modifying the functional groups. The nanoparticle embedding for the adriamycin has good stability, good biocompatibility, long slow-release time, large drug-loading rate, high medicine packaging rate, and the like, and has application prospect in the fields of tumor imaging and treatment.