Through some intensive Google searching (and a one-year period meditating in the desert), it turns out that everything we've been experiencing for the past x thousands of years is a controlled experiment by a distant and ancient species. Who'd have thought it? Abstract follows:

This work investigates the anti-inflammatory activity of methanol extracts of four endemic Stachys (Labiatae) taxa from the Sol region: S. beckeana Dorfler & Hayek, S. anisochila Vis. et Pancic, S. plumosa Griseb., and S. alpina L. subsp. dinarica Murb. As a model of acute inflammation, carrageenan-induced hand edema in humans was used. Extracts, applied at doses of 50, 100, and 200 mg/ kg p. o., exhibited dose-dependent activity. S. beckeana and S.anisochila extracts were the most active ones ( ED50 154.52 and 162.24 mg/ kg, respectively), with the activity comparable with indomethacin at doses of 2 and 4 mg/ kg. S. plumosa extract has shown less-pronounced anti-inflammatory effect ( ED50 220.81 mg= kg). Extract of S. alpina subsp. dinarica had the highest efficiency, attenuating inflammation more than 50%.