Oren-to extract alone was administered to 28 patients who had pain in the tongue but without organic lesions, and who had either a “hypofunctioning constitution” or a “normal functioning constitution”. The patients were predominantly women in their 50's. Treatment was continued for at least two months. The results were excellent in nine, good in 15, and unchanged in four. No side-effects attributable to Oren-to were observed. When the effect was compared in patients with and without dryness of the mouth, no significant difference was found. Thus it was shown that Oren-to was effective in the treatment of pain in the tongue in patients with either 'hypofunctioning constitution“ or ”normal functioning constitution“, regardless of whether they ”had dryness of the mouth or not. It seems that this preparation is also effective for the treatment of pain in the tongue in patients with psychosomatic disease who have a “hypofunctioning constitution” or “normal functioning constitution”. We discuss our study focusing on this condition.

Objective To identify the characteristics of the air-conducted ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potential(oVEMP) in the young normal Chinese subjects.Methods Twenty five normal subjects were recruited for conventional examinations of oVEMP.The subjects were 19 - 45 years of age [ (24.3 ± 5.6) years ],12 males and 13 females.500 Hz air-conducted tone burst was employed for examination.The threshold of oVEMP in each ear was examined; patterns of these waves were observed and the normal ranges of the oVEMP waves responded to 100 dBnHL were calculated.Results All subjects were elicited with normal oVEMP N1-P1 waves in both ears.The response rate in these subjects was 100％.The threshold of oVEMP examination was ( 86.6 ± 3.6) dBnHL ( (x) ± s),latency N1 ( 10.1 ± 0.4 ) ms,latency P1 ( 14.7 ±1.2) ms,interval N1-P1 ( 4.5 ± 1.0 ) ms,amplitude ( 7.9 ± 4.4 ) μV.Conclusions Air-conducted oVEMP is a kind of vestibular-ocular reflex respond to intensive sound generated by otolithic vestibular end organs.It is stable in the young normal subjects with minor variabilities.