Dipteryx odorata. Tongo, Tonka or Tonquin Bean. N.O. Leguminosae. 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. *Dipteryx 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: worse by rest, when seated. Better by movement. Pressure improves.
Relations
*Antidoted by: Vinegar.
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Peevishness and ill-humor. Dislike to labor and conversation.
Head
Head confused, especially in occiput, with drowsiness. Heaviness of head, especially on rising up after stooping. Drawing headache. Pressure, tearings, and shootings in head, especially on coming into a room, with tearings on one side of the face and ill-humor. Shootings in head, when laughing. Pulsative headache, especially on left side. The headaches disappear on taking vinegar. Excessive sensibility of exterior of head.
Eyes
Burning sensation and dryness of eyes, when reading in evening. Drawing, tension, and quivering in eyelids.
Ears
Tearing in ears.
Nose
Coryza, with obstruction of nose. Violent sneezing in the night. Slight tearing in root of nose with irritation of sneeze and cough.
Face
Paleness of complexion, with red cheeks. Tearing in maxillae. Semi lateral, tearing pains in face.
Teeth
Toothache, with tearing pain, especially in molars, worse by pressing upon them, dissipated by the use of vinegar. Acid blood from teeth and gums.
Mouth
Copious accumulation of water in mouth.
Throat
Roughness and scraping in throat.
Stomach
Risings with taste of bitter almonds.
Abdomen
Burning sensation and cuttings in the hypochondria, as if externally. Movements and pinchings in abdomen.
Stool
Tenesmus. Hard feces, evacuated with straining. Diarrhoea, followed by excessive sensibility of abdomen.
Urinary Organs
Scanty urine, with white sediment. Urine of color of white wine, with much slimy sediment. Red urine, with abundant clay-colored sediment.
Female Sexual Organs.
Catamenia premature. Leucorrhoea, when walking. Discharge of thick mucus from vagina (when making an effort to pass a stool).
Respiratory Organs
Hoarseness, with burning sensation in larynx.
Chest
Shooting and burning sensation under sides of the chest.
Back
Pains in loins, with excessive sensibility to the touch.
Lower Limbs
Tearing in left hip-joint 5 p.m. better rubbing. Tearing in left thigh and knee better pressure. Violent stinging like the prick of a needle in fatty portion of right great toe after dinner.
Generalities
Tearing in the limbs, better 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.
