Herb in Thai notifiable formulas

Java Tea

หญ้าหนวดแมว · Ya Nuat Maeo

Orthosiphon aristatus (Blume) Miq.

Family: Labiatae
Part used: leaf and shoot tip
Crude drug: Orthosiphonis Herba
Other names: Orthosiphon
In the announcement: Used in 1 notifiable formula

Java Tea, dried leaf and stem tip — Photo: Vinayaraj · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · resized

Thai Herbal Pharmacopoeia (THP)

Constituents and quality criteria of Java Tea

Summarised from the Java Tea monograph of the Thai Herbal Pharmacopoeia, Department of Medical Sciences, the standard used to test the dried leaf and stem tip.

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

Constituents

Java Tea contains terpenoids (e.g., ursolic acid), caffeic acid and its derivatives (e.g., rosmarinic acid) and flavones (e.g., sinensetin). It also contains volatile oil, potassium, etc.

Raw material quality criteria

Foreign matter	Not more than 5% w/w
Loss on drying	Not more than 11.0% w/w
Total ash	Not more than 12.5% w/w
Acid-insoluble ash	Not more than 1.0% w/w
Water-soluble extractive	Not less than 20.0% w/w
Ethanol-soluble extractive	Not less than 10.0% w/w

Storage: Java Tea shall be stored in a dry place, protected from light.

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

Formulas using Java Tea

1 formula containing Java Tea

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

Ya Ya Nuat Maeo Cat's whiskers, Java tea (single-herb)Diuretic; relieves difficult urination (khat bao); expels small stonesHerbal-derived medicine
Herbal tea · single herb

Development potential

Develop Java Tea into a product with the TIBD group

In notifiable formulas1 formula1 as a single-herb formula

THP raw-material criteria6 testsfor acceptance testing before production

Marker with a minimum contentNot setquality is checked with the raw-material criteria

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