Jatropha Curcas

Jatropha curcas, is a perennial poisonous shrub, Barbados nut or Physic nut with a height of up to 5 meters.
The plant originating in Central America, and it has been spreead to other countries in tropical ang sub-tropical countries as well and is widely grown in Asia and Africa. It is an uncultivated wild species, a non-food plants. In the Philippines it is widely use as a living fence to protect the gardens and any other fields from animals, it is also use believed as a deterent to snakes, it grows in desert and even grow with less water and as such does not compete with food crops, the animals don't like to eat the leaves so they can grow well.

The seeds contains 30% oil that can be process to produced high quality bio-diesel fuel, usable for a standard diesel engine.

We try to plant Jatropha curcas, but the problem is the market. There is no known market yet in the Philippines, so we stop planting Jatropha, in the bakyard of our house Jatropha is a common plant.

Blood Pressure Monitors

I remember those time my first time to get the blood pressure of my uncle who was a bed ridden because of stroke. My cousin who is a graduate of nursing tought me to meassure the blood pressure of my uncle. He uses a mercury base instrument to meassure the blood pressure, then my auntie from USA, a nurse brought home a digital blood mesuring device I still remember the brand of that gadget its omron, its easy to use. Now we don't have one because no one in the house who use it anymore..