Tongo

Dipterix odorata. Tongo, Tonka or Tonquin Bean. N. O. Leguminosæ. Tincture of the dried beans.

Clinical

Hip, pains in / Migraine / Neuralgia of face / Toothache

Characteristics

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 of the almond-tree. Curiously in the proving it produced "Risings with taste of bitter almonds." The chief uses of Tong. have been in migraine and neuralgic affections. The symptoms are: < By rest; when seated. > By movement. Pressure >.

Relations

Antidoted by: Vinegar.

1. Mind

Peevishness and ill-humour. Dislike to labour and conversation.

2. Head

Head confused, esp. in occiput, with drowsiness. Heaviness of head, esp. on rising up after stooping. Drawing headache. Pressure, tearings, and shootings in head, esp. on coining into a room, with tearings on one side of the face and ill-humour. Shootings in head, when laughing. Pulsative headache, esp. on l. side. The headaches disappear on taking vinegar. Excessive sensibility of exterior of head.

3. Eyes

Burning sensation and dryness of eyes, when reading in evening. Drawing, tension, and quivering in eyelids.

4. Ears

Tearing in ears.

5. Nose

Coryza, with obstruction of nose. Violent sneezing in the night. Slight tearing in root of nose with irritation to sneeze and cough.

6. Face

Paleness of complexion, with red cheeks. Tearing in maxillæ. Semilateral, tearing pains in face.

7. Teeth

Toothache, with tearing pain, esp. in molars, < by pressing upon them, dissipated by the use of vinegar. Acid blood from teeth and gums.

8. Mouth

Copious accumulation of water in mouth.

9. Throat

Roughness and scraping in throat.

11. Stomach

Risings with taste of bitter almonds.

12. Abdomen

Burning sensation and cuttings in the hypochondria, as if externally. Movements and pinchings in abdomen.

13. Stool

Tenesmus. Hard fæces, evacuated with straining. Diarrhœa, followed by excessive sensibility of abdomen.

14. Urinary Organs

Scanty urine, with white sediment. Urine of colour of white wine, with much slimy sediment. Red urine, with abundant clay-coloured sediment.

16. Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia premature. Leucorrhœa, when walking. Discharge of thick mucus from vagina (when making an effort to pass a stool).

17. Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness, with burning sensation in larynx.

18. Chest

Shooting and burning sensation under sides of the chest.

20. Back

Pains in loins, with excessive sensibility to the touch.

23. Lower Limbs

Tearing in l. hip-joint 5 p.m. > rubbing. Tearing in l. thigh and knee > pressure. Violent stinging like the prick of a needle in fatty portion of r. great toe after dinner.

24. Generalities

Tearing in the limbs, > by external pressure and also by movement. The majority of the symptoms manifest themselves when seated, and during repose. Vinegar dissipates many of the pains.