Many people suffer from buying too many expensive insecticides to keep insects out of their crops. So now, I’m going to help you cut costs on buying expensive brand name insecticides/pesticides. We are going to make a homemade insecticide/pesticide using herbal plants like makabuhay (tinospora rumphii boerl) and kakawate (gliricidia sepium).

MAKABUHAY (Tinospora rumpii Boerl) compounds with febrifuge, vulnerary, tonic, antimalarial, parasiticide and insecticide properties. Vine that reaches 4 to 10 meters. Fleshy stems, about 1 cm in diameter, with scattered protuberances. Thin, ovate leaves, 6-12 cm long and 7-12 cm wide, with pointed apex and heart-shaped base, smooth and shiny. Petiole up to 6 cm long. Solitary racemes or in pairs that arise from the axils of the leaves, light green in color and short pedicels. Fruit 8 mm long, in long clusters. Propagated by stem cuttings or seeds. Support needed to climb.

• Plant contains a bitter principle, columbine (2.22%); traces of an alkaloid; and a glycoside. It also contains amorphous bitter principle, picroretin and traces of berberine.

• A study showed that the bitter extract of the stem does not contain alkaloids.

• The study revealed two new diterpenes together with the well-known compounds tinotufolin D and vitexilactone.

KAKAWATE (Gliricidia sepium) It is common in the Tagalog areas of the southern Philippines, losing leaves around December and blooming in February and March. In some areas, the blooming of its pink flowers is so profuse that it deserves a comparison with cherry blossoms.

Constituents and properties

Phytochemical studies have shown:

• Formosin (an isoflavan, reportedly antitumor), formononetin (isoflavan), gliricidin-6a, gliricidol-9A, medicarpin (pterocarpan, reportedly antifungal), 7,4′-dihydroxy-3′-methoxyisoflavin, 2’O-methylsepiol , tannin and a trihydroxyflavone.

• Tannins are considered potentially antidiarrheal, antidysenteric, antimutagenic, antioxidant, bactericidal, hepatoprotective, pesticide and viricide.

• Stigmastanol glucoside and 3′,4′-dihydroxy-trans-cinnamic acid octacosyl ester 2 along with three other known constituents were isolated from the heartwood.

Now I am going to show the procedures to make our HOMEMADE INSECTICIDE/PESTICIDE.

Materials:

  • 50 sheets of MAKABUHAY
  • 100 leaves of KAKAWATE
  • 10ml dishwashing liquid
  • 10ml of Oil
  • 20 pieces of SILING LABUYO (Capsicum frutescens) – with the properties of, Stimulant, digestive, rubefacient, stomachic, sialagogue, alterative, antispasmodic, febrifuge, depurative.
  • containers
  • Knife
  • Sieve/Screen
  • cutting board
  • teapot

Process:

  1. Cut makabuhay, kakawate and siling labuyo into small pieces.
  2. Put it in the kettle with water and then boil it.
  3. A boiled one sieves it to obtain the extract and then puts it in a container.
  4. Add the other ingredients.
  5. Stir.
  6. Put on a spray then try it now.