Scoparius genista

Cytisus scoparius · Plant · Fabaceae

Phatak

Scoparius genista suits patients with cardiac irregularity accompanied by renal congestion, where relieving the kidneys lessens the heart's distress. There is marked flatulency with mental depression and a sensation of the abdomen being filled with stones. The remedy has a particular affinity for the left side of the chest and heart.

Key symptoms

Irregular heart action from influenza or other infectious diseases
Anxious oppression radiating to left shoulder and neck
Palpitation with congestion to head; angina pectoris
Stomach and bowels feel filled with stones or as a firm mass
Flatulency with much mental depression
Very profuse bright foaming urine with burning in pudendum
Colic then bright acrid foaming stools with burning in anus
Deadness of right arm and fingers

Worse (aggravation)

Turning on the left side

Better (amelioration)

Cool air
Rapid motion
Passing flatus

S. R. Phatak

Materia Medica of Homoeopathic Medicines

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