chrysarobin

IPA: krˈɪsɝˈoʊbɪn

(organic chemistry) A bitter yellow substance forming the essential constituent of Goa powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid.

Examples of "chrysarobin" in Sentences

If the patches are few and large, chrysarobin rubber-plaster may be used.
The cautious use of a five to twenty per cent. chrysarobin ointment is of value.
_Pyrogallol_ is valuable, and is employed in the same manner and strength as chrysarobin.
On the same general plan and with the same remedies (excepting chrysarobin) as in ringworm of the scalp.
Andira araroba, is the source of a fungicide (chrysarobin) used to treat skin diseases (Allen and Allen 1981).
Ichthyol internally, and external applications of the same drug, and of resorcin, chrysarobin, and pyrogallic acid, have been extolled.
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.
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.
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.