Antiseptic Dorogov's Stimulator (russian: italic=yes, АСД, антисептик-стимулятор Дорогова, ASD) is an antiseptic drug invented by A. V. Dorogov in the 1940s in the former
USSR
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
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History
ASD was originally invented by Russian researcher A. V. Dorogov in the 1940s and initially kept secret and allowed only for army and special services use. Since the 1990s it has been produced in a biochemical factory in
Armavir and registered in
Russia
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as official drug for animal-only usage and recommended for skin diseases in pigs and cows.
Properties and production
Attributed strong anti-carcinogenic and anti-viral
[Дерябина З. И., Николаев А. В. Химико-фармакологическая характеристика препарата АСД. Труды Всесоюзного института экспериментальной ветеринарии. М., 1968, т. 35, с. 326-339]
/ref> properties, the production process is described as "thermal processing of animal-origin tissues." The final product is a dark fluid with a very strong and specific odour. Available in two fractions - "third", denser, is to be administered on skin, "second" fraction - orally.
See also
* Drug policy of the Soviet Union
The drug policy of the Soviet Union changed little throughout the existence of the state, other than slowly becoming more repressive, although some differences in penalties existed in the different Union Republics.
However, the prevalence of drug a ...
Literature
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References
Antiseptics
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