I`ve never heard of that one but I`ll also try it next time.

What I usually do is bathe my eye in warm salt water, the relief is instant and normally within a few days it`s much better, all I do is get a bowl of salt water and a clean facewasher, dip the facewasher into the salt water and keep it on your eye for as long as you can bear it, the hotter the better off course without burning yourself.

I hope it`s better soon, sty`s are very painfull.