Tita FilesSubject designation
The Encyclopedia Tita
Field profile
Has a home remedy for literally everything. Cough? Calamansi and salt. Fever? Efficascent Oil on the soles of feet. Questioned it once, never again.
Known behaviors
- Diagnoses your headache as 'namamalantsa' before you finish describing it.
- Treats every ailment with menthol oil, calamansi, or both.
- Dismisses the actual doctor with 'gamot na 'yan, sigurado.'
Natural habitat
By your bedside the moment you sneeze, armed with a tray of oils, teas, and instructions delivered as fact.
Signature phrase, on record
“Gamot na 'yan, sigurado.”
Case notes
Her medical archive was compiled over decades from her own mother, the neighbor, and a magazine from 1998, and she quotes it with total confidence. Some of it genuinely works. All of it comes faster and warmer than any clinic. Take the calamansi to be polite, take the actual medicine when she is not looking, and never, ever tell her that you looked it up and she was wrong.
Engagement protocol, for field use
- 01Accept the calamansi. It costs you nothing and buys you decades of goodwill.
- 02Take the actual medicine privately. Dual treatment keeps everyone's dignity intact.
- 03Never cite the internet. Her sources predate the internet and, in her view, outrank it.
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