Tongo-dipterix odorata
Dipteryx odorata · Plant · Fabaceae
Tongo suits patients with severe neuralgic pains especially of the face and lower extremities, worse during rest and sitting, better from movement and external pressure. There is a characteristic drowsy confusion of the head with heaviness. It has been used in migraine, facial neuralgia, and left-sided hip and knee joint pains.
Key symptoms
- Tearing neuralgic pains in the face, especially semilateral
- Tearing pains in hip-joints, femur, and knee, especially left side
- Pulsative headache especially on left side; pressure and tearings in head
- Head confused especially in occiput, with drowsiness and intoxication-like state
- Supra-orbital neuralgia with heat, throbbing, and lacrimation
- Risings with taste of bitter almonds
- Pains predominantly when seated; better from movement and pressure
- Headaches and toothache dissipated by vinegar
Worse (aggravation)
- At rest; when seated
- Pressure on teeth (toothache)
Better (amelioration)
- By movement
- By pressure (limb pains)
- By vinegar (headaches and toothache)
- By rubbing (hip pain)
Seeds of Coumarouna-a tree in Guiana (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.
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.
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