Diamond green... This is why the solution for external use is not used abroad!

For people born in the USSR, green is medicine No. 1. Diamond greens have been and remain (in some remote regions of our country) a universal means of combating many diseases.

However, not everyone knows what causes the excessive popularity of this drug in our homeland and why it has such a pompous name.





Another interesting fact is that no one is using it abroad. green for medical purposes. Today our editors will try to reveal all the secrets of such a familiar drug as green!

Diamond greens



History of origin diamond-green He is associated with a young chemist from London, who in the XIX century was engaged in the development of a cure for malaria.





He conducted many experiments with coal tar: dripping acid on it, distilled, distilled and not only. As a result of one of the experiments, a unique substance of bright purple color was obtained.





The color was so resistant that the laundress could not wash the stains from the shirt of the young explorer. The father of the chemist was enterprising and immediately realized how to use the discovery of his son for enrichment: “I don’t know how there is a cure for malaria, and you have already earned a piece of bread and butter.”





Soon the man opened the first plant for the production of resin dyes. Well, the scientist was so successful in the production of dyes that at the end of his life he was knighted and became a sir.





Doctors began to use these dyes for their own purposes: they stained the drugs to better see a variety of microorganisms under the microscope. In the course of such studies, doctors found that one of the dyes, namely diamond green, destroys microbes.





The Latin name for this dye is viridis nitenti. Literally translated as green shiny. One of the scientists, translating the name into French, used the word brillant (which is not a mistake, one of the meanings of this word is brilliant).

Confusion occurred when the name was translated into Russian. Brillant was used in the sense of “diamond”. It is funny that among all the dyes only green has such a pompous name.





However, if you tell a foreigner about the use of this drug, he will be very surprised! The fact that abroad no one uses greenery for antiseptic purposes. Here's why.





The Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Russian State Medical University explained that the doctrine of evidence-based medicine has been adopted in the West. And the molecular mechanism of action of green is still not studied.





To find out, you need expensive research. But no one will spend a lot of money to study such a simple drug.

It is a pity that such a useful medicine is used only in our homeland! Be sure to tell your friends about the history of greenery.