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History

Thai Traditional Medicines were intensively gathered in the reign of King Rama I. During the era, Thai government had firstly established the "Traditional Medical Department" which later had been changed to be the nursing department. In the same period, a new medical center named "Osotsala" was opened to serve as the official medical warehouse and clinical center.

In 1902, Thai government had expanded a new branch of Osotsala that was named "Governmental Osotsala". It hired German pharmacists to produce and distribute western-formula medicines to every Thai governmental office. In the same year, the government also established a factory called "Osotsapha" to produce Thai medicines serving to general Thai people.

Later, two organizations, Governmental Osotsala & Osotsapha, had combined and produced western-formula medicines by themselves. But they were not so popular for public. Eventually, they created 10 formulas of Thai Traditional Medicines in which one of them was "Ya-Utai".

Ya-Utai formula could be found in many Thai Traditional Medicine Textbooks. All of them originally came from thesame source. They were from Thai Traditional Medical School or Wat Po, the Temple of Reclining Buddha, located at Bangkok City, Thailand.

On the first stone slab in the pagoda located at the eighth gallery pillar of Wat Po, we can see the story of one herbal traditional medicine called "Tipsamran" which is a similar formula to Ya-Utai and Utaitip. They have same indications : -Cardiotonic, Blood tonic and Element tonic.

Following the popularity of Ya-Utai produced by the government, during an early decade of the 20th century, Osotspa Company Limited had decided to produce Ya-Utai under a tradename "Utairasamee" and promote nationwide. Later on, the company improved the formula of Utairasamee and changed the tradename to "Utaitip". Up until now, it has been in the market more than 80 years old. Meaning of "Utaitip" :"Utai" means sunrise. "tip" means heaven or magic. Utaitip comparativety means natural drireshness as morning drip.