TLDR: it can but ask your vet first, not every tea is fine and let that shit cool down until you'd feel fine putting it on your eyes. And be gentle, don't rub.
When I was a kid we had a bunch of strays living around the house. One if them had a fresh litter of kittens. And at least one of the kitten was sick. So she sorted him out and left him at the door we usually came through, when we fed the strays.
I was about to go to school when I found him and brought him back in. His eyes were totally crusty, he had some kind of chronic infection so we took him to the vet.
There my mother was taught the whole caring routine. He was just a few weeks old, still needed special kitty formula and to be cleaned throughly. And using chamomile tea bags to soften the eye boogers from his infection was part of it. Since he was so small he wasn't actually fighting back. But I think his older version would have allowed it, if he was in the mood for contact (he sometimes had a mean streak).
Though he was chronically sick his whole life, he was the only one of the strays which turned out not to have FIV (though he was an outside cat). He was with us for over (partially very snotty) 20 years and will be forever remembered for sleeping head first in my older sister's shoes and sneezing into my mother's mouth.
Obvs he was orange. Here he is in an intense fight with one if his bottle sisters:
