Sports salves
Salves date back along time ago---probably as poultices first. An idea that the person could make them selves a poultice that could last through the winter months and always be ready.
Poultices tend to be "thick" with herbs that will be messy on going on and messy coming off. They can work well, but just messy to deal with.
Old fashion Dr. Christopher style BF&C rich salves can also be "messy", but work well.
ONLY after essential oils were available, was old medical pharmacies make Vaseline style salves that the petroleum jelly floats on top of your skin and you breath in the essential oils--normally while sleeping, etc.
With Thailand style ointment for pain, gave me a whole different approach to making an ointment/salve, something i always called Sport salves. These salves are much "thinner" and thus less messy, unless put on thick. these types of ointments can be blends of herbs, oils and essential oils and literally no limit on how strong.
Fr 40+ years there is a salve that I call #1 strength or W / B---for wounds and burns---so gentle some people use it to cure their hemorrhoids. It is a miracle ointment for burns of all kinds, for all ages and all places on the body, even if you had to cover your entire face and poke 2 holes for your nose and 1 hole for your mouth---you literally can cover your body where ever it is burned and no matter how deeply burned or damaged, even down to the broken/burnt bones and if you do it all correctly and properly you can witness new arteries and veins start to appear and watch flesh and bones build the selves...naturally the modern day human would be scared to death and prefer to be treated in burn clinics where they will experience pains they did not know could exist, but then that is what their drugs are for.
How can such a simple salve do such a thing? Very simple, it is not the salve, it is the blood that does all the work....the salve helps keep things sterile and fed as herbs internally travel with the blood as building blocks---stuff no medical college would ever dare teach.