page_title: Brilliant green (dye)
section_title: Uses
hierarchical_section_title: Brilliant green (dye) / Uses
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of a brilliant green's solution's pack
context_page_description: Brilliant green is one of the triarylmethane dyes. It is closely related to malachite green.
context_section_description: Brilliant green has been used to color silk and wool.
  It is indicated for disinfection of fresh postoperative and post-traumatic scars, umbilical cord of newborns, abrasions, cuts, and other violations of the integrity of the skin, in the treatment of purulent-inflammatory processes of the skin - hordeolum ("barley"), meibomite, blepharitis, pyoderma, local furunculosis, carbunculosis, staphylococcal infection. It is applied externally, the drug is applied to the damaged surface, capturing the surrounding healthy tissue.
  In Russia and Ukraine (and much of the rest of the former Soviet Union), the dilute alcoholic solution of brilliant green is sold as a topical antiseptic, also known under a Latin name solutio viridis nitentis spirituosa and the colloquial Russian name of zelyonka (зелёнка, lit.  'green thing'), which is zelenka (зеленка) in Ukrainian.
  Brilliant green is a visible light-activated photocatalyst in organic synthesis.
caption: Russian zelyonka
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