Took some keyword googling, it’s Banixx! I guess not exactly denatured water but an acid called hydronium used in wound healing.
I’ve still seen Thrush Buster around. I do or did have Banixx but it all leaked out of the bottle when it got knocked on its side somehow. Good to know that it does work well on thrush. I haven’t really had to battle much thrush, but I did use Pure Sole a few times during the wet season and was pleased with that.
My horse had some festering thing on his coronary band recently and lightly scrubbing it with chlorhexidine, then spraying with Scarlex, and Alushield after allowing the Scarlex to sit for a bit cleared it up in a matter of days when every other goop seemed to be doing nothing. I’ve never used Scarlex before but wasn’t paying attention and grabbed what I thought was Blue spray/Blukote 
I’d never really heard of it before but seems like something useful to have around and the spray factor is convenient. Seems like an older remedy and probably isn’t as popular for various reasons, but it worked in this case. The festering thing was starting to granulate a wee bit and the Scarlex knocked that right out.
I worried it was a summer sore, but now it’s practically gone.
I Googled, and Scarlex seems way more interesting than Dr Naylor’s Red kote!
One of the issues with thrush and also granulating wounds is unless we run a lab culture, we don’t really know what particular combination of fungi and bacteria are in that particular case. So that’s why all the thrush topicals are just wide spectrum anti fungal/ bacterial potions. And why any given one might or might not work on your horse. Also, in my experience you can knock out the active infection in a few days, but if the horse is ouchy from deep sulcus cracks going almost into the soft tissue, they will also need to grow that out which takes a couple of weeks before there’s enough frog growth to not be tender.
I liked thrush buster, it is iodine and gentian violet. I’ve also used the “Pete Ramey goo” of mixed athletes foot cream, zinc oxide and Polysporin shot up into the sulcus with a syringe. This was when the crack was really deep and I didn’t want to use anything that sting. I find iodine in a spray bottle is a great preventative in winter.
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