Acriflavine is traditionally employed as a topical antiseptic, though has more recently been implicated as an antiviral agent at low doses, potentially by stimulating the production of interferon.

Acriflavine antiseptic is a brown or orange powder that is mixed with water to wash out wounds and treat abrasions. In World War I and World War II it was used to treat everything from open wounds ...

The antiseptic, Acriflavine, was used back in the early 1900s to treat “sleeping sickness”. It’s a tropical disease caused by protozoan parasites, organisms that can fester in humans and ...

The research team found acriflavine to be helpful in triggering anti-viral immune response against common cold. ‘World War I antiseptic found to be effective against common cold in the recent ...