Chrysarobin

Andira araroba, is the source of a fungicide (chrysarobin) used to treat skin diseases (Allen and Allen 1981). ❋ Unknown (1990)

Rumicin is the active principle of the Yellow Curled Dock; and from the root, containing chrysarobin, a dried extract is prepared officinally, of which from one to four grains may be given for a dose in a pill. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

Blue hair is seen in workers in cobalt mines and indigo works; green hair in copper smelters; deep red-brown hair in handlers of crude anilin; and the hair is dyed a purplish-brown whenever chrysarobin applications used on a scalp come in contact with an alkali, as when washed with soap. ❋ Unknown (1896)

The cautious use of a five to twenty per cent. chrysarobin ointment is of value. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

_Pyrogallol_ is valuable, and is employed in the same manner and strength as chrysarobin. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

If the patches are few and large, chrysarobin rubber-plaster may be used. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

Ichthyol internally, and external applications of the same drug, and of resorcin, chrysarobin, and pyrogallic acid, have been extolled. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

On the same general plan and with the same remedies (excepting chrysarobin) as in ringworm of the scalp. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

It may also be employed in chloroform, a drachm to the ounce; this is painted on, the chloroform evaporating, leaving a thin film of chrysarobin; over this is painted flexible collodion. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

In some instances it develops from a long-continued and more or less generalized eczema or psoriasis, and in exceptional cases it is started by the careless use of mercurial ointment and of chrysarobin ointment. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

It is less rapid than chrysarobin, but it rarely inflames the surrounding integument. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

The active ingredient of Goa powder is chrysarobin, also known as 2-methyl dithranol. ❋ Unknown (2008)

During World War I, this treatment was further refined, as a synthetic form of chrysarobin called antralin, or dithranol, was formed. ❋ Unknown (2008)