The City Council has sought the expertise of chemists from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST-9) to conduct studies on how effective is the in-organic fertilizer which reportedly can kill mosquito larva.

Mosquitoes are even prevented from coming back to a breeding site once it will be mixed with the powder-form fertilizer called “Eco-Lite,” said Sonny Rumata, a resident of Barangay Recodo, this city, who introduced the product during the City Council session the other day.

Councilor Lilia Nuño immediately brought a sample of Eco-Lite fertilizer to DOST for them to examine and find out if it contains substances that will eventually harm the environment and human health.

According to Rumata, he has been using Eco-Lite fertilizer in his farm in the west coast for several years now and has not noticed any negative effect on the environment.

“This is not a chemical to kill mosquito larva,” Rumata said as he related to the councilors his experience after seeing mosquito larva died when mixed with eco-lite fertilizer.

Rumata introduced the in-organic fertilizer when the Council the other day was discussing possible measures to eradicate mosquitoes carrying the killer disease called dengue.

While at DOST-9, Councilor Nuño also informed officials that the Council has passed a resolution seeking for the conduct of a separate study on the herbal plant called locally as “tawa-tawa”, which many have been claiming to be very effective in curing dengue fever.

While there has been no scientific confirmation yet, people, however, who were once afflicted with dengue have publicly averred on the efficacy of “tawa-tawa,” whose scientific name is euphorbia hirta.

Councilor Eduardo Saavedra, who was a dengue patient, even brought a bottle of water already boiled with tawa-tawa roots during the Council’s session.

Saavedra claimed that when he was infected with dengue last year, no medicines except for “tawa-tawa” that made his blood platelet increase and lowered his fever as well.

Another dengue patient, Antonio Deles, Barangay Chairman of Camino Nuevo, shared similar experience.