Living with Nature - School on Blog
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM, 8 to 9 evening class, Monday to Friday
Sugar solution extends the life of cut flowers.
In horticulture, they call this pulsing. Cake made of rice flour ,
instead of wheat flour.
instead of wheat flour.
1. Cut spent toothpaste tube and glean on remaining content. You can have as much as five brushing. Use remaining paste as hand-wash to remove grease and fishy odor.
2. Don't dispose used cooking oil in sink. It reacts with detergent and solidifies like soap - the same process called saponification, blocking drainage canal and sewer.
3. Rice weevil can be controlled by placing crushed bulb of garlic in the stored rice. Loosely wrap garlic with cloth or paper. Cover the box. In a day or two, the weevils succumb to the garlic odor. Others simply escape.
4. Make your own hand wash detergent. Scrape soap with knife, dissolve in water. Presto! You can have all the hand wash you need. Use your formula to refill empty dispensers. Label with the soap you used and the dilution you made. Avoid commercial concentrated brands - they are too strong, and dangerous to children.
5. Protect tip of pencil with rolled paper which serves as cap to extend the life of the pencil, and prevent accident. Use gloss, colored paper - the kind used as p. You can also roll it as extender when the pencil becomes too short, thus maximizing its use. promo leaflets. Instead of refusing, or throwing it away, you can make a beautiful pencil ca
6. Garden pots from PET bottles, 1- to 2-liter content. It’s free, whereas commercial garden pots are
expensive. Cut at midsection with a sharp knife or blade; puncture three equidistant
holes on the side, an inch from the base, not at the bottom. This is to keep reserve water for the plant. Plant
one kind per pot: oregano, alugbati, kamote,
kangkong, ginger, onion, garlic,
mustard, pechay, and the like. Scrape some
topsoil for your planting medium. There’s
no need of fertilizer and pesticide.
Keep a pot or two of growing garlic or onion, also ginger; they are
insect repellents.
Garlic in PET garden pot
7. Sugar solution extends the life of cut
flowers.
In horticulture,
they call this pulsing, a technique
of providing nourishment and extending the shelf life of cut flowers. This
technique lengthens vase life twice as much.
It allows buds to open and postpones stem collapse, while it enhances
freshness of the opened flowers.
8. Pulsing for roses
is done by immersing the stem ends for one to three hours in 10% sugar
solution, and for gladiolus 12 to 24 hours in 20% sugar solution. Daisies,
carnation, chrysanthemums, and the like are better handled if harvested and
transported in their immature stage, then opened by pulsing. It is best to cut the stem at an angle,
dipped 6 to 12 hours in 10% sugar solution compounded with 200 ppm of 8-hydroxyquinoline
sulfate, 100 ppm citric acid. Best
results are obtained at cool temperature and low relative humidity.
9. Press the base of the jaw joint to
relieve toothache. There’s a saying
that when your tooth aches, there’s nothing you can do about it except to take
painkiller. Mabuti pa ang sakit ng tiyan. At least for stomach ache you can manage to
find a comfortable position, or press the painful part to secure relief.
10. Smoke therapy (suob) – old folks’ aroma therapy.
Basang, my auntie
who took care of me when I was a child, was sick and dying. Doctor Catalino,
our rural physician, gave her injection but her condition did not improve, and
now she was in a pit of convulsion. As a
last ditch Cousin Bistra who knew something about herbal cure gathered leaves
of kamias (Averrhoa balimbi) and
roasted it on charcoal until a characteristic aroma began to fill the room.
Fanning it over the patient face, with prayers chanted, Basang began to calm
down, the color of her skin improved, and soon fell into deep sleep.
Ms. Precila
Delima who is taking her doctorate in biology in UST related in class a
practice among the Ibanag of Cagayan of using suob by mothers who have just
given birth. Garlic and shallot onion (sibuyas
tagalog) are roasted on charcoal, and packed with cloth. While still warm the patient sits on the pack
for several minutes, with her whole body covered with blanket. She perspires profusely, eliminating wastes
and toxins from her body. The whole
procedure is closely attended to by the “olds” in the family with the direction
of the village manghihilot or
homegrown midwife (comadrona or partera
Ilk.). Old folks believe that this practice is important because it drives out
evil spirits or wards them off in order to prepare the way the mother faces the
crucial responsibility of motherhood – after child bearing follows the bigger
task - child rearing.
11. If the father or mother leaves the house,
place the clothes he or she last worn beside the sleeping child so that he goes
into deep sleep. This is
pheromones in action. Pheromones are chemical signals for bonding in the animal
world, and among humans. Like the queen bee that keeps its colony intact
through pheromones, so we are attracted by a similar odor, although of a less
specific one. People are compatible
through smell. Pheromones are left in
clothes and other belongings, so that a baby may remain fast asleep as
if he were in his mother’s or father’s arms.
12. Don’t eat between meals, old folks
advise.
Coffee break is a
corporate invention, and snacks are the first version of fast food, thanks to
capitalism. So why take heed of the old advice?
Well, let’s look
at it this way. Our old folks take heavy meals, mainly rice or corn, depending
on the region they live, and they do not eat anything in between meals. Yet
they work for long hours, and are healthy.
How is that?
Starch in cereals
is polysaccharide, which means that it has to be broken down into simple sugar
before it is “burned” by the body to release energy. Starch has to be
hydrolyzed with the aid of enzyme (amylase) found in our digestive system. Glucose, the ultimate product is broken down
through oxidation (respiration), providing the needed energy for various body
functions. This transformation takes
hours, releasing energy throughout the process, and by the time the fuel is
exhausted, it is time for the next meal.
This is a simple test. Have you experienced having a grain of rice
unknowingly tucked between the gums and teeth?
After an hour of so, the grain taste sweet. It means that the grain is
undergoing hydrolysis – from starch to sugar.
White sugar
(sucrose), on the other hand is directly burned, after it has been split into
two monosaccharides. That is why too
much white sugar leads to high blood sugar – if we do not burn it – and may in
the long run become the cause of diabetes.
This eating
regimen of old folks may apply to manual workers, principally in the
field. Today we find this virtually
impossible to follow. First, we need a
lot of energy, mainly for the brain, and secondly, we are already accustomed to
having snacks. In fact many of us never
stop eating. A foreigner once commented, “Filipinos are always eating.” What with all the advertisements - from TV
commercials to giant billboards - and the proliferation of food carts and
stores. ~
Other household tips:
Homemade calamansi juice
Wild vegetables: and alugbati and talinum on the backyard,
Ensure long shelf life of garlic and onion (shallot) by hanging them in a cool and dark place.
Italian oregano: for cough remedy, and Italian cooking
Malunggay, most common
backyard vegetable
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