Andira araroba, is the source of a fungicide (chrysarobin) used to treat skin diseases (Allen and Allen 1981).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 35] Reference

If the patches are few and large, chrysarobin rubber-plaster may be used.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference

The cautious use of a five to twenty per cent. chrysarobin ointment is of value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference

The active ingredient of Goa powder is chrysarobin, also known as 2-methyl dithranol.    From Wordnik.com.  [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference

It is less rapid than chrysarobin, but it rarely inflames the surrounding integument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference

On the same general plan and with the same remedies (excepting chrysarobin) as in ringworm of the scalp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference

During World War I, this treatment was further refined, as a synthetic form of chrysarobin called antralin, or dithranol, was formed.    From Wordnik.com.  [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference