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TONGO. – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.

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TONGO.

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.

MIND.

►
She feels very cheerful (first day). ►
Sadness, disquietude, bad temper (first day). ►
Bad humor, it frets him to work or talk (sixth day). ► Peevish, feels good for nothing, for an
hour and a half (first day).

HEAD.

►
Heaviness in the head, on rising, after stooping (first day). ► Heaviness in the whole head, in the
morning, on waking and after getting up (sixth day). ► Confusion of the head, especially the
occiput, with somnolence and a sort of intoxication (immediately). ► Stupidity in the head during a hard
stool, and even some time afterwards. ►
Headache all the morning, pressure, tearing, and stitching, especially
on going into the room; with tearing up the left side of the face, very
morose, and much sensitiveness of the scalp, mostly ceasing on using
vinegar, at noon (fifth day). [10.] ► Drawing pains in the head, now here, now
there, especially in the right frontal eminence (after one hour and a
half). ► Feeling of weight in the
head, and sensation as if it was too large (at the end of half an hour).
► Throbbing headache, with heaviness
of the whole head, in the morning, after rising (seventh day). ► The troubles in the head and teeth cease
after using vinegar. ► Heaviness in
the forepart of the head, almost preventing him from lifting his eyes
(after half an hour). ► Tension at a
small place on the vertex (first day). ►
Several severe dull dartings deep in the vertex (first day). ► Transient, painful drawing deep in the
brain, in the left half of the forehead, when lying in bed (second day).
► Weight in the forehead, on rising
after stooping. ► Pressure, in the
forehead, now here, now there, but more on the left side (seventh day). [20.] ►
Pressure and throbbing in the vertex (ninth day). ►
Fine tearing on the vertex, on the right side of the head (after eight
hours). ► Several pointed stitches in
the vertex, and, at the same time, a painful cutting, like a
contraction, in the occiput (second day). ►
The crown of the head, externally, is very painful to touch (first day).
► A shock in the vertex, followed by
tearing more in the front in the left parietal bone, and at the same
time a painful shooting in the cranial cavity, which makes him cry out
(first day). ► Tearing in the right
side of the head, when stooping, ceasing on rising (fourth day). ► A violent tearing, deep in the head, in a
small spot in the right parietal bone (after two hours). ► When laughing, deep sticking in the right
side of the head (second day). ►
Sharp darting in the right side of the head, followed by tearing in the
right ear, in the evening (sixth day). ►
Several sharp dartings in the upper part of the right parietal bone,
through the head, and coming out below the occiput (second day). [30.] ►
Some sudden severe shootings in the right side of the head, so that she
utters loud cries (second day). ►
Dull stitch in the left parietal bone. ►
Sharp stitching in the left side of the head (fourth day). ► Throbbing stitching above and behind in
the right parietal bone, extending toward the forehead, broken off,
often, by leaning the head on the hand (second day). ► When entering the room, throbbing in both
sides of the head, which feels squeezed as in a vice; at the same time
sensitiveness of the hairy scalp; this all soon disappeared after dinner
(first day). ► Throbbing pain in the
left side of the head (second day). ►
Throbbing headache in the left side, as she goes into the room (sixth
day). ► Compressive headache in the
occiput, with external sensitiveness, in the morning, after getting up
(sixth day). ► Tearing from the right
occiput, through the head, to a frequently painful tooth in the right
lower jaw. ► Dull stitching, followed
by tension, in the right side of the occiput; it drew the head backward
(seventh day). [40.] ► A sharp stitch in the left side of the
occiput, and afterwards itching in the same place, ceasing when
scratched. ► Ulcerative pain in the
right side of the occiput, the skin is even painful to the touch. ► Extreme sensitiveness and painfulness of
the scalp to touch (sixth day).

EYES.

►
Dryness and burning in the eyes, in the evening, when reading (second
day). ► Burning in the eyes, as if
they were too dry, in the afternoon (third day). ►
Violent tearing in the right upper orbital border (first day). ► Three painful tearings, externally, above
right orbital border (first day). ►
Violent biting and sticking in the right eyebrow, in the afternoon
(seventh day). ► So violent a
trembling in the right upper lids that the eye waters with it;
frequently renewed, for two hours (seventh day). ►
Feeling as of a grain of sand in the inner canthus of the eye (first
day). [50.] ►
Tension around the lower eyelid; she dares not open it for fear of an
aggravation, which, however, did not occur (first day). ► Tearing and tension in the left lower
eyelid (second day). ► A burning
shooting in the lower eyelid, like a bee-sting (seventh day). ► Itching in the inner canthus of the left
eye, in the afternoon (seventh day). ►
Itching in the inner canthus of the left eye, which rubbing relieves,
but does not remove (after one hour and a half).

EAR.

►
Twisting dartings in the lobe of the right ear, that she starts (first
day). ► Some painful tearings around
the right ear. ► Violent tearing
behind the right ear in the bone (fifth day). ►
Tearing in the external auditory meatus, which goes on penetrating more
deeply, until it reaches the internal meatus, where it terminates; it
returns after a short interval (first day). ►
Painful tearings deep in the left ear (first day). [60.] ►
Tearing, followed by titillation, in the left ear (seventh day). ► A couple or sharp dartings in the right
inner ear, so that she starts (first day). ►
Painful crawling in the right ear, which ceases on introducing the
finger (second day). ► Violent
itching in the right ear, the act of scratching increases it (fifth
day).

NOSE.

►
Violent sneezing, ten times in the night (tenth day). ► Coryza, with stoppage of the nose, she is
obliged to hold the mouth constantly open, at night; this ceases in the
morning, but returns at noon. ►
Slight tearing in the root of the nose, with irritation to sneeze, in
the evening (first day).

FACE.

►
Face very pale, in striking contrast with red cheeks (eighth day). ► Feeling as if the mucous membrane of the
left cheek was drawn up (first day). ►
Tension in the right malar bone, with feeling as if there was a slight
weight there; pressure removes this, and it returns, but in a less
degree (after one hour and a half). [70.]
► Painful tearing in the left upper
jaw, but she cannot tell whether it is in the gum or in the roots of the
teeth (second day). ► Slight tearing
in the right lower jaw, and at the same time tickling itching in the
ends of the teeth, and tearing in the roots of the same; the pain ceases
in the jaw, but not in the teeth on biting on them (after two hours).

MOUTH.

►
Bleeding of a hollow tooth of the left lower jaw, the blood has an acid
taste, in the evening (seventh day). ►
Some painful tearings in a hollow tooth of the left lower jaw, an hour
after dinner (first day). ► Violent
tearing in all the left lower teeth, from behind forward, as if they
were being pulled out, after dinner (first day). ►
Digging and disturbance in the left lower posterior molar, unchanged by
cold and heat; they are aggravated by the contact of food (sixth day). ► Several painful tearings in three left
inferior molars; she believes they are being pulled out, after dinner
(first day). ► A violent tearing in
the left lower jaw, in a corresponding molar tooth (first day). ► Tearing in the left upper molars, when
laughing. Tearing from the last left molar to the upper part of the
head, in the morning, after rising (seventh day). [80.] ►
Tearing in some of the left lower molars, which cold water causes to
cease, in the afternoon (first day). ►
Tearing in the roots of the upper molars; the pain reaches as far as the
zygomatic process, and is followed by crawling in their tips; on closing
the jaw it at first increases, then ceases (second day). ► At dinner, violent tearing in two lower
molars of the left side, aggravated by biting on them, in the forenoon
(first day). ► Shooting, which,
starting from a diseased tooth, goes through the head and the muscles of
the right side of the nape of the neck (first day). ► Tickling in some molars of the right
side, in biting on them, ceasing when she opens the mouth (first day). ► Acrid blood flows from the left lower
gum, without sucking, in the evening (third day). ►
Tearing in the left lower gums and in the teeth (seventh day). ► Burning of the palate (after
three-quarters of an hour). ► Fine
tearing in the back part of the palate (in half an hour). ► Flow of water in the mouth. [90.] ►
Mouth constantly full of water, almost all the forenoon. ► Acid taste in the morning, after getting
up (second day).

THROAT.

►
Abundant viscid mucus in the throat, which disappears by frequent
hawking (first day). ► Rawness in the
throat, disappearing after supper (in three-quarters of an hour). ► Scraping and rawness in the throat, in
the morning (first and second days). ►
In the right side of the pharynx, feeling as if a rough, sharp substance
slowly forced itself into the ear, and moved about for some time deeply
in the interior (after one hour and a half).

STOMACH.

►
Frequent thirst at all hours of the day (second and third days). ► Several returns of empty rising from the
stomach. ► Risings, as after eating
bitter almonds (after five minutes, and often). ►
Strong hiccough, immediately after dinner (first day). [100.] ►
Nausea and inclination to vomit (after three-quarters of an hour). ► In the forenoon, loathing and desire to
vomit, ceasing after dinner (first day). ►
Pleasant heat in the stomach (after half an hour). ►
Slight whirling, with pinching, first in the epigastrium, then in the
hypogastrium, ceasing on the emission of flatulence, in the afternoon
(second day). ► Circumscribed cutting
around the stomach, on both sides, more to the right, for an hour, in
the forenoon, when walking (first day). ►
A couple of dull shootings in the right side of the stomach, together
with a dull shooting above the left knee, before noon (seventh day). ► A pricking, a sort of shooting, in the
left side of the stomach, as if an intestine was tightened and
immediately relaxed, painfully repeated several times (first day).

ABDOMEN.

►
Inflation, at first in the bowels, then also in the stomach, in the
forenoon (second day). ► Frequent
loud emission of flatulence, at night (first day). ►
Burning tension in the right lower region of the abdomen, and extending
in the chest to the right shoulderblade, deeply seated, in the afternoon
(first day). [110.] ► Sensation almost like pinching, at first
to the right, a hand’s breadth below the pit of the stomach, then in the
right side of the abdomen, afterwards in the left upper side of the
abdomen, after dinner (first day). ►
Slight pinching in the right side of the upper abdomen, extending later
to below the umbilicus (second day). ►
Pinching in the upper abdomen, with sensation in the stomach as if a
ball was rolling about there during the menses. ►
Disagreeable pinching in the bowels, then urging to stool, and an
evacuation, which is larger than usual. ►
Pinching and borborygmi in the bowels, then diarrhœic stool, with
mucus, followed by tenesmus (eighth day). ►
Pinching and rolling in the bowels, as if a diarrhœa was coming on, but
he passes only two small hard lumps, and with a good deal of pain, after
which the scraping in the anus lasts a long time (sixth day). ► Great soreness of the bowels after a
diarrhœic stool (eighth day). ► Very
painful feeling in the hypogastrium, in front, beneath the umbilicus, in
the right side, to the extent of more than six inches, as if a thread
were there, and caused smarting and gnawing over one small spot. ► Burning in the right groin, which comes
on and goes off while walking (first day). ►
In the right groin a deep sharp shooting, then over large surface a
burning outside, with sensation as if an oblong hole was dug in her
inside, in the afternoon (first day). [120.]
► Sensation in the right groin as if
the skin of the bowels was retracted, or rather a painful pressure
externally, after dinner (first day).

STOOL AND ANUS.

►
While walking, violent urging to stool. ►
Urging to stool, yet, notwithstanding violent efforts, he passes
nothing. ► Normal stool, and, half an
hour after, very soft stool, with pinching at intervals in the whole
abdomen and tenesmus (eighth day). ►
Hard stool, with pressure (seventh, eighth, and ninth days). ► Stool so solid that she is very tired
during defecation, and fears something is ruptured (sixth day).

URINARY ORGANS.

►
Increased urination; urging early in the morning in bed (third day). ► The urine is more sedimentary, normal as
to quantity, tardy in emission, with a thick cloud (fifth day). ► Scanty urine, depositing an abundant
white sediment. ► Urine of a
wine-yellow color, depositing at once a quantity of viscid mucus (fifth
day). [130.] ►
Red urine; it deposits a thick muddy sediment (sixth day).

SEXUAL ORGANS.

►
Flow of thick mucus from the vagina when straining at stool. ► Leucorrhœa, when walking, often in the
day. ► Very scanty painless menses,
seven days too early.

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS.

► Hoarse voice, with burning in the larynx
(first day). ► Transient irritation
to cough in the larynx, forenoon (first day).

CHEST.

►
Burning below the xiphoid cartilage, and at the same time a fine
stinging (after half an hour). ►
Burning in the region of the false ribs and cutting pain, which extends
over the back, as if a sharp body was ploughing the skin (second day). ► Rumbling and clucking in the first false
ribs of the left side, in front of the pit of the stomach, in the
afternoon (second day). ► Sudden
burning a hand’s breadth below the right armpit, externally (first day).
[140.] ►
When leaning towards the right side, while sitting, tensive burning in
the region of the left ribs, a hand’s breadth below the armpit (first
day). ► Burning in the region of the
left false ribs, as if a tight string had entered the flesh, after
dinner (first day). ► Sudden and
repeated burning, causing him to start, over the left lower ribs, in the
a evening (first day). ► Burning in
the region of the right false ribs, as if a string or a garment was very
tightly tied around them; pressure diminished it a little, and this
place is then slightly sore on pressure (after one hour and a half). ► Pain, a sort of cutting and bruised
feeling, under the left breast, which passes thence toward the pit of
the stomach and back again several times; it is relieved by pressing on
the parts, but afterwards returns (first day). ►
Sharp stitching deep in the chest, in one side, below the armpit,
without relation to the respiration (second day). ►
Some very slight shootings, like stings, over the middle of the two
first false ribs on the right side (after three-quarters of an hour). ► Some sharp stingings in the eighth and
ninth right ribs (first day). ► Sharp
stinging, severe, under the left chest as far as the armpit (second
day). ► Two sharp stingings in the
seventh left rib, then over a larger surface; at the same time a sort of
burning and darting in the outer chest. [150.]
► Burning stinging in front under the
left chest when raising oneself after stooping (first day).

NECK AND BACK.

►
Wrenching pain in the left side of the nape of the neck, less when
turning the head, sensitive to pressure (second day). ► Sharp stinging in the left scapula
through the shoulders, in the morning (second day). ► Pain in the sacrum, which is very
sensitive to external pressure (second day). ►
Violent bruised pain in the sacrum when sitting, ceasing during exercise
(third day).

UPPER EXTREMITIES.

►
A couple of dull shootings in the left shoulder (first day). ► Paralytic pain in the right axilla (after
one hour). ► Lancinating tearing in
the head of the left humerus during rest (fifth day). ► Burning in the right elbow, ceasing when
rubbed (first day). ► Sensation of
internal pressure in the left forearm, in the elbow (after one hour). [160.] ►
Tearing in the elbow, at a point above the wrist-joint and extending to
the latter, short-lasting, but very painful (after one hour). ► Violent tearing below the condyle of the
left elbow, which ceases when pressed upon, but returns (first day). ► Stinging and tearing in the right arm,
directly below the elbow (eighth day). ►
Tearing in the posterior joint of the right thumb as far as the middle,
which ceases on movement (second day). ►
Tearing in the middle of the posterior phalanx of the right index finger
(first day). ► Violent tearing in the
extensor tendons of the right middle and ring fingers, during dinner.

LOWER EXTREMITIES.

►
After dinner, at 5 o’clock, tearing in the left hip-joint, ceasing on
being rubbed, when walking; a couple of violent sharp twitchings deep in
the right hip, when standing (second day). ►
Twitching, with fine stitches, in the middle of the right thigh on
sitting, ceasing on standing up (second day). ►
Violent tearing in the left thigh, as if in the bone, when standing,
ceasing when seated (second day). ►
Violent tearing in the left thigh and knee, relieved by pressure, in the
evening (first day). [170.] ► Tearings sometimes in the thigh,
sometimes in the knee, relieved by walking and pressure, all day (sixth
day). ► Tearing at first in the left
knee, as far as the middle of the tibia, then in the middle of the
thigh, toward the hip-joint, relieved a little by pressure (first day). ► Tearing over a hand’s breadth above the
left knee, extending into the knee-joint (first day). ► Shocks in the knee when walking, so
severe that she is threatened with falling, during the menses; some
painful tearings in the right tibia (first day). ►
Violent stinging, like the prick of a needle, repeated six or seven
times, in the fatty portion of the right great toe, after dinner, when
seated (second day).

GENERALITIES.

►
Great indolence and sleepiness after dinner (seventh day). ► Feeling of comfort (immediately).

SLEEP AND DREAMS.

►
Yawning, stretching, dread of work, without sleepiness.

FEVER.

►
Shaking chill, from 2 o’clock to 5 o’clock P.M., in the open air (first
day). ► Heat in the head, and even
external warmth on the forehead. [180.]
► Increased heat in the head, in the
morning (first day). ► Flushes of
heat, not disagreeable, from the umbilicus to the stomach (first day).

CONDITIONS.

►
Aggravation.
► (Morning), On waking and after getting up,
heaviness in head; headache, etc.; after rising, headache, etc.; after
getting up, headache in occiput; after getting up, acid taste; scraping,
etc., in throat; early, in bed, urging to urinate; stinging in left
scapula; heat in head. ► (Forenoon), Mouth full of water; loathing,
etc.; when walking, cutting around stomach; shootings in side of stomach
in side of stomach, etc.; inflation in bowels, etc.; irritation to
cough. ► (Afternoon),
burning in eyes; biting, etc.; in eyebrow; itching in left canthus;
whirling, etc., in epigastrium, etc.; tension in abdomen; shooting in
groin, etc.; rumbling, etc., in side; 2 to 5 o’clock, in open air,
shaking chills. ► (Evening), Tearing in side of head, etc.; when
reading, dryness, etc., in eyes; tearing in root of nose, etc.; bleeding
of teeth; blood from gum; burning over lower ribs; tearing in thigh,
etc. ► (Night),
Emission of flatulence. ► (Contact of food), Pain in left molar tooth. ► (During dinner),
Tearing in tendons of fingers. ► (After dinner), Tearings in hollow tooth;
tearing in lower teeth; hiccough; sensation below pit of stomach, etc.;
sensation in right groin; burning in region of ribs; 5 P.M., tearing in
hip-joint; when seated, stinging in great toe. ►
(Leaning to right side while sitting),
Burning in region of left ribs. ► (Laughing), Sticking in side of head. ► (During menses),
Pain in upper abdomen, etc. ► (Rising after stooping), Heaviness in head;
stinging under left chest. ► (Entering room), Throbbing in sides of head,
etc.; throbbing in side of head. ► (Scratching), Itching in ear. ► (Sitting),
Pain in sacrum; twitching, etc., in thigh. ►
(Standing), Twitching in right hip;
tearing in thigh. ► (Stooping), Tearing in head. ► (After
diarrhœic stool
), Soreness of bowels. ►
(During and after hard stool),
Stupidity in head. ► (Walking), Urging to stool; leucorrhœa;
shocks in knee. ► Amelioration.
► (Biting on
teeth
), Pain in jaw ceases. ►
(After dinner), Throbbing in head
disappears; loathing, etc., ceases. ►
(On emission of flatulence),
Whirling, etc., in epigastrium, etc., ceases. ►
(During exercise), Pain in sacrum
ceases. ► (Leaning
head on hand
), Stitching in parietal bone broken off. ► (On movement),
Tearing in thumb ceases. ► (Pressure), Burning in region of right ribs;
pain in left breast; tearing in knee, etc.;
tearing in thigh, etc
. ► (On rising after stooping), Tearing in head
ceases. ► (When
rubbed
), Burning in elbow; in walking, tearing in hip-joint
ceases. ► (When
seated
), Tearing in thigh ceases. ►
(After supper), Rawness in throat
disappears. ► (Standing up), Twitching in thigh ceases. ► (Turning head),
Pain in side of nape of neck. ► (After using vinegar), Troubles in head, etc.,
cease. ► (Walking),
Tearing in thigh, etc.

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