Tongo-Dipterix Odorata

Seeds of Coumarouna-a tree in Guiana

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

(TONGO - DIPTRIX ODORATA)

Useful in neuralgia; pertussis.

Head

Tearing pain in supra-orbital nerve, with heat and throbbing pain in head and epiphora. Confused, especially the occiput, with somnolence and a sort of intoxication. Trembling in right upper lid. Coryza; nose stopped, must breathe through mouth.

Extremities

Tearing pains in hip-joints, femur, and knee, especially left side.

Relationship

Melilotus. Anthoxanthum, Asperula , and Tonga contain Coumarin , the active principle. Compare them in hay-fever; also, Trifol; Napth; Sabad .

Dose

Tincture and lower potencies.

Tongo-Dipterix Odorata across the other classic books

Tongo-Dipterix Odorata appears in 3 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Dipteryxodorata, Schr. (Baryosma Tongo, Gærtn.; Coumarouna odorata, Aubl.). Natural order , Leguminosæ. Common names , Tongo or Tonka bean. Preparation , Tincture of the dried beans. Authority. Nenning in Hartlaub and Trink's Annalen d. Hom. Klinik, 4, 125. She feels very cheerful (first day). Sadness, disquietude…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Dipterix odorata. Tongo, Tonka or Tonquin Bean. N. O. Leguminosæ. Tincture of the dried beans. Hip, pains in / Migraine / Neuralgia of face / Toothache Tongo was proved by Nenning. Its fragrant seed is much used by perfumers. Dipterix odorata, which yields it, is a native of Cayenne. The fruit is something like that…”

Tongo-Dipterix Odorata in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Tongo-Dipterix Odorata in 2 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic.

MIND - FEAR - work, - dread of
MIND - CONFUSION of mind - intoxicated,as if

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