Herb in Thai notifiable formulas

Garden Cress Seed

เทียนแดง · Thian Daeng

Lepidium sativum L.

Family
Cruciferae
Part used
seed
Crude drug
Lepidii Sativi Semen
Other names
Cress Seed
In the announcement
Used in 27 notifiable formulas (8 as capsules)
Garden Cress Seed, dried mature seed
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Thai Herbal Pharmacopoeia (THP)

Constituents and quality criteria of Garden Cress Seed

Summarised from the Garden Cress Seed monograph of the Thai Herbal Pharmacopoeia, Department of Medical Sciences, the standard used to test the dried mature seed.

The pharmacopoeia sets no minimum marker content for this herb. Use the raw material quality criteria below for acceptance testing.

Constituents

Garden Cress Seed contains sinapic acid, sinapine and imidazole alkaloids. It also contains volatile oil, fatty acids, amino acids, isothiocyanate glycosides, mucilage, etc.

Raw material quality criteria

Foreign matterNot more than 2.0% w/w
Loss on dryingNot more than 10.0% w/w
Total ashNot more than 6.0% w/w
Acid-insoluble ashNot more than 0.4% w/w
Ethanol-soluble extractiveNot less than 15.0% w/w
Swelling indexNot less than 20

Storage: Garden Cress Seed shall be kept in well-closed containers, protected from light, and stored in a dry place.

Source: Thai Herbal Pharmacopoeia, Department of Medical Sciences (online edition, accessed 21 October 2026)Read the full THP monograph
Formulas using Garden Cress Seed

27 formulas containing Garden Cress Seed

Select a formula to see its ingredients and indications. Formula names and indications are a reference translation; the Thai announcement is the legal text.

Development potential

Develop Garden Cress Seed into a product with the TIBD group

In notifiable formulas27 formulasused in multi-herb formulas
THP raw-material criteria6 testsfor acceptance testing before production
Marker with a minimum contentNot setquality is checked with the raw-material criteria

Three ways forward 1Notify a listed formula2Adapt it through detailed notification3Develop a Category B herbal medicine or Category C health productSee the development pathway