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Total Herbal & Nutraceuticals Product List

Total Herbal & Nutraceuticals makes supplements rather than conventional medicines: biotin and vitamin tablets, probiotics, fertility and women’s health preparations, joint and nerve products, and two medicated shampoos.

The bulk of the range is filed under Herbal & Nutraceuticals. The sections below group it by what each product is taken for.

Biotin

Biotin is vitamin B7, and it is taken almost entirely for hair and nails. The range carries it at several strengths, and the strength is on the listing.

It helps a deficiency, and true deficiency is uncommon

Where hair thinning is caused by low biotin, supplementing corrects it. Where it is not — which is most of the time — taking more does not produce thicker hair, because the body excretes what it does not need.

Hair fall with a cause such as thyroid disease, iron deficiency, a recent illness or a genetic pattern needs that cause found. A blood test settles it and a supplement does not.

Biotin interferes with blood tests — tell the lab

This is the most important thing on this page and almost nobody is told it. High-dose biotin distorts several common laboratory immunoassays, including thyroid function tests and the troponin test used to diagnose a heart attack.

The results can look convincingly wrong in either direction, which has led to both missed diagnoses and unnecessary treatment. Stop biotin for a few days before a blood test where you can, and always tell the doctor or the laboratory that you take it.

Probiotics and Gut

Where the evidence for probiotics is strongest

Alongside and after a course of antibiotics, and in some forms of infectious diarrhoea, particularly in children. Those are the situations where the evidence is reasonably strong.

Taken indefinitely by a well adult, the case is much weaker. They are also not a treatment for ongoing digestive symptoms, which deserve a diagnosis.

Storage matters more than with other supplements

Live organisms die with heat and moisture, and in this climate that is a real consideration. Follow the storage instruction on the pack, keep the container closed, and do not leave a probiotic in a hot room or a car.

When diarrhoea needs more than a probiotic

Blood in the stool, a high fever, severe abdominal pain, signs of dehydration, or diarrhoea lasting more than a couple of days in a child or an older adult. Fluid replacement with a proper oral rehydration solution comes first in all of those.

Fertility and Reproductive Health

Fertility difficulty needs both partners investigated

A supplement is a supporting measure and no more than that. Where a couple has been trying for a year without success — or six months if the woman is over thirty-five — that is the point to see a doctor, and the investigation covers both partners.

Many causes of infertility are identifiable and treatable, and months spent on supplements before anyone is examined is time that matters more than it seems at the outset.

Folic acid is the one with unambiguous evidence

Anyone who could become pregnant should be taking folic acid from before conception, because it reduces the risk of neural tube defects and the protection is set in the first weeks. The dose is a matter for a doctor, particularly where there is diabetes, epilepsy or a previous affected pregnancy.

Check with a doctor before starting anything while trying

Not every ingredient in a fertility supplement is appropriate in pregnancy, and some should be stopped once a pregnancy is confirmed. Bring the pack to the appointment rather than describing it.

Women’s Health and Hormonal Products

DHEA is a hormone precursor, not an ordinary supplement

The body converts it into oestrogen and testosterone, so it behaves like a hormone even though it is sold as a supplement. Recognised effects include acne, unwanted hair growth and voice changes, and it can interact with hormone-sensitive conditions.

It should not be taken without medical advice, and certainly not by anyone with a hormone-sensitive cancer, liver disease or a heart condition, or during pregnancy or breastfeeding.

If you are breastfeeding, supply usually responds to other things first

Frequency of feeding and effective attachment drive milk supply far more than anything taken by mouth. A midwife or lactation adviser is the person who can watch a feed and see what is happening, which no supplement can substitute for.

Joint, Nerve and General Wellness

Under Nutritional & Energy Supplements and the herbal shelf.

Nerve symptoms are worth investigating

Tingling, numbness and burning in the hands or feet have identifiable causes — diabetes, B12 deficiency, thyroid disease, some medicines — and several of them are straightforwardly treatable once found.

A B-vitamin supplement corrects a deficiency if there is one. It does nothing for the other causes, and taking one instead of getting tested delays the part that helps.

Joint pain that persists needs looking at

Swelling, morning stiffness lasting more than half an hour, joints that are hot or red, or pain that wakes you are reasons to see a doctor rather than to continue with a supplement.

Skin, Hair and Other Preparations

Medicated shampoos need contact time

Work the shampoo into the scalp, leave it for the minutes the label states, then rinse. Applied and rinsed straight off it delivers almost nothing, which is the usual reason someone concludes it did not work.

A coal tar preparation stains fabric and light hair and has a distinctive smell. It also increases sensitivity to sunlight, so it is worth knowing before using one in summer.

Supplements Alongside Prescribed Medicines

This range is supplements, and the same rule applies to all of them.

Tell your doctor and your pharmacist what you take, including anything herbal and anything taken occasionally. Most people leave supplements out when asked, because the question sounds like it is only about prescriptions. It is not.

Raise it before surgery, during pregnancy and whenever a new prescription is written — and do not stop a prescribed medicine in order to take something from this page.

More is not better

Fat-soluble vitamins accumulate rather than being excreted, and several minerals interfere with the absorption of each other and of medicines. Taking a multivitamin and a single-ingredient tablet that overlap is an easy way to exceed a safe intake without noticing.

Check the strength, not the name

Several products in this range are sold at more than one strength, and two packs that look identical on a shelf can differ several times over in what they contain. The strength is printed on the pack and stated on the listing, and it is the number a pharmacist will ask for.

It also matters when replacing something that ran out. Buying by the name alone is how people end up on a different dose without realising it.

Where Total Herbal Sits on Arogga

This page collects one manufacturer. The shelves collect one kind of preparation across manufacturers, which is the comparison worth making when a pharmacist suggests an alternative.

Strengths and stock both move, and the listing is where either is current. It is also where the pack size sits, which is the part most often assumed rather than checked.

Where something in this range is out of stock, the shelf it sits on will usually show an equivalent from another manufacturer — the same ingredient at the same strength, under a different name.

About Total Herbal & Nutraceuticals

Total Herbal & Nutraceuticals makes supplements and nutraceutical preparations rather than conventional medicines. Its range on Arogga is broad: biotin, probiotics, fertility and women’s health products, joint and nerve preparations, general wellness tablets, and a small set of medicated skin and hair products.

The biotin tablet draws more interest than anything else by a wide margin, followed by the evening primrose capsule and the children’s probiotic powder.

The company is also referred to as TNC and as Total Natural Company, and it is searched with and without the ampersand.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Will biotin make my hair thicker?

Only if thinning is caused by low biotin, which is uncommon. The body excretes what it does not need, so more does not produce more hair. Thinning from thyroid disease, iron deficiency, illness or a genetic pattern needs the cause found by a blood test.

2. Does biotin affect blood tests?

Yes, and this matters. High-dose biotin distorts several common laboratory immunoassays, including thyroid tests and the troponin test used to diagnose a heart attack, and the results can look convincingly wrong. Stop it for a few days before a test where possible, and always tell the doctor or lab.

3. When are probiotics actually useful?

Alongside and after a course of antibiotics, and in some forms of infectious diarrhoea, particularly in children — those are where the evidence is reasonably strong. Taken indefinitely by a well adult the case is much weaker, and ongoing digestive symptoms deserve a diagnosis.

4. How should probiotics be stored?

Follow the pack, keep the container closed, and do not leave them in a hot room or a car. They contain live organisms that die with heat and moisture, which is a real consideration in this climate.

5. Should we try fertility supplements before seeing a doctor?

A supplement is a supporting measure and no more. After a year of trying without success — or six months if the woman is over thirty-five — see a doctor, and have both partners investigated. Many causes are identifiable and treatable.

6. Is DHEA a normal supplement?

No. It is a hormone precursor that the body converts into oestrogen and testosterone, so it behaves like a hormone. Acne, unwanted hair growth and voice changes are recognised. Do not take it without medical advice, or at all in pregnancy or with a hormone-sensitive condition.

7. Can a supplement increase breast milk supply?

Frequency of feeding and effective attachment drive supply far more than anything taken by mouth. A midwife or lactation adviser can watch a feed and see what is happening, which no supplement substitutes for.

8. Do I need to tell my doctor about supplements?

Yes, including anything herbal and anything taken occasionally. Raise it before surgery, during pregnancy and whenever a new prescription is written. A multivitamin taken alongside a single-ingredient tablet that overlaps with it also makes it easy to exceed a safe intake.