Anyone ever heard of "Stan's rodeo ointment"?!
Question:
Anyone ever heard of "Stan's rodeo ointment"?
A family member has eczema and someone told me this is really good for it.
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IT’S THE BALM
Back in his days as a rodeo cowboy, Stan Johnston, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ head athletic trainer, mixed some items in his medicine chest and came up with a balm that helped heal the burns and blisters on his hands from riding bulls and roping steers. He kept the recipe, and now Stan’s Rodeo Ointment mends professional athletes.
Dodgers pitcher Derek Lowe, whose blisters would cause him to throw blood-stained baseballs when he was with the Boston Red Sox, says the black, tarry goo solved his chronic problem. “It saved me from just having to make it through a game,” Lowe, 33, said. “Now talent can dictate a game again, not how long you can hold on and endure the pain.”
Johnston began using the substance on baseball players when he joined the Dodgers as a trainer in the team’s minor-league system in 1985. As players moved to other organizations, word spread. The Florida Marlins ordered the ointment to help pitcher Josh Beckett combat nagging blisters. Beckett, who was traded to the Red Sox before this season, has been on the disabled list nine times in his six-year career, mostly because of blisters. Beckett said he kept one tube with Red Sox trainers and another at home or the team’s hotel.
Johnston, who was a National League trainer at Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game on Tuesday, has applied for a patent on his potion — a combination of Polymyxin B Sulfate, Bacitracin Zinc and Povidone Iodine. He says he is aiming to convince a pharmaceutical company to sell it as an over-the-counter medication. For now, he has it made by SportPharm, a pharmacy based in Torrance, Calif., that supplies sports teams. It costs $35 for a one-ounce tube.
I don't know if it would or wouldn't be good for Eczema; but it wouldn't hurt to try. I couldn't find a link to purchase, sorry.