Natrum Molybdaenicum – Sodium Molybdate

The attenuations are prepared from Sodium molybdate-dihydrate, Na₂MoO₄ · 2H₂O, MW: 242.0.

With the increasing shortage in plants and exhausted soil, Molybdenum has been recognised as an important trace element and co-factor in enzyme-functions. It is found in xanthine oxidase (in the liver and milk), which contains iron, apart from molybdenum, as an active factor.

Natrum Molybdaenicum is indicated for long-term treatment of neoplasms, since here there is normally a lowered molybdenum level, which may also be of causal significance.

Nitrate reductase, a flavoprotein enzyme, also contains molybdenum in a complex compound. It is found in numerous bacteria, such as Escherichia coli, Clostridium Welchii, and in fungi (neurospora, aspergillus), and can reduce a nitrate to a nitrite, whilst azobacteria are able to build up gaseous nitrogen from the air into nitrogen compounds in the presence of the smallest quantities of molybdenum.

Thus it is possible that small doses of molybdenum are able to counteract dysbac- terial action, particularly in view of the combination with sulphur.