with a velvet wall than a place for raw plant matter. Put garlic there and you’re not “supporting” anything — you’re pressing a pungent, moisture-heavy object against fragile tissue that was never built for that contact.
Think of a paper-thin filter jammed into a running fan. The air still pushes through, but now everything rattles, overheats, and starts to smell wrong.
The first thing people notice is the pressure. Then comes the itch, the sting, the odd plugged-up feeling that makes you keep touching the ear as if that will somehow
