Buckwheat Pillows

A Buckwheat Pillow - Priceless

     Buckwheat pillows are priceless to a lot of people. But there are a lot of people who would scarcely glance twice at anything as useful and practical as a buckwheat pillow. That is if there were, right next to it on the store shelf, a totally useless and impractical item like a cabbage patch doll, or one of those little furry rodents people were fighting over there for a while before Christmas. After all that commotion over those, there, before Christmas, my wife just recently bought one at a yard sale for a quarter.

     I find it amusing, but even more so, saddening, to see people with limited incomes going ga-ga over those virtually worthless trifles, while they will stand and scratch their rears and pick their noses while trying to justify “sacrificing” a few dollars to invest in something really practical, which would enrich and improve 30% of every day that they will be on this earth - a buckwheat pillow. That’s because we average about 30% of our lives sleeping.

     There are several explanations for this behavior, some understandable, and some just idiotic. The most reasonable of the causes of this are that a lot of people simply don’t know what a buckwheat pillow is. That’s not their fault. Or, while they may have a vague notion of what they are, they don’t really comprehend how valuable and advantageous buckwheat pillows are to the well being of so much of their life.

     I can’t help but feel at least partially responsible for this situation, or at least, let’s say, I feel I have a responsibility to do what I can to alleviate this state of affairs. I feel I need to do what I can, to enlighten everyone that I can, as to the benefits and advantages of buckwheat pillows over conventional foam and feather pillows. 

     But then, there are those who I can’t help. Those are the ones who understand the values involved, but they simply don’t have the discipline to resist that warm, fuzzy feeling they get when they  see the whimsical look on a doll’s face, or the cuteness of a furry little puppy, and they just can’t get their wallets opened up fast enough to spend their hard earned dollars, while they feign poverty when it comes to investing in something that would really benefit them.

     These people have basically the same psychological makeup as the alcoholic who, upon finding or being given, some money, immediately goes out and purchases a cheap bottle of wine, even though they’re literally starving to death.

     So, if you fall in the category of the unenlightened, please go to my website and learn all about the advantages of buckwheat pillows. But if you fall in the psychologically challenged, then I guess you’ll just have to experience the old cliche’ of “You made your own bed, now go sleep in it”. But I know that’s not where you fit in. I’ll be waiting for your order through Buckwheatglory.com.

      Buckwheat pillows have many benefits. Some of them are easily explained and verified scientifically, but then there are those that people experience and proclaim, but are not so easily verified. These are termed anecdotal. These are things that seem to work for some, but not others.

     They’re the things that one person will swear by, while others laugh at. Sometimes these things eventually gain at least a certain degree of acceptance, like for example acupuncture.

     Many years ago I heard about acupuncture, which was then mostly considered a sort of voodoo by many of us Westerners, while generally accepted as a legitimate medical treatment by many Orientals. My first wife suffered greatly with epileptic seizures, chewing her tongue terribly and having headaches that lasted for days. I was desperate.

     We decided to try acupuncture. While it didn’t completely cure her, it made a tremendous difference. It completely eliminated the tongue chewing, and greatly diminished the other aspects to where the seizures could be controlled by medication, and she soon was able to get her drivers license and live a normal life. After that, we could be counted among those who championed acupuncture. My first wife has been deceased for some years now, but I would still certainly recommend trying acupuncture in circumstances such as my wife’s.

     What does all this have to do with buckwheat pillows? Good question. But there are many benefits attributed to buckwheat pillows by some people which may not be proven by scientific means, and which may not seem to work for all individuals. For example, my present wife’s granddaughter stopped in one day with a headache (which she is prone to) that she had been enduring for three days.

      She asked my wife if she would watch her children for a while so she could lie down, because she was feeling really badly. Of course my wife agreed, and she also brought to her her buckwheat bed pillow to rest on. Because of her headache, she hadn’t been able to sleep for three days, but she immediately fell asleep, and slept all day.

     When she awoke, the first thing she said was “What kind of pillow is this. I’ve never slept so well in my life. I have to have one of these. My headache is completely gone.” My wife, being the selfless soul that she is, gave her her buckwheat pillow. Shannon, her granddaughter took it home and made the mistake of telling her husband about it. Even bigger mistake - she let him try it out. They both wanted to sleep on the same pillow - hard to do. We came to the rescue and gave him one for Christmas, and peace, to say nothing of sound sleep, has been restored to the house hold.

     This is one example among many, of anecdotal claims attributed to buckwheat pillows. Science may not be able to prove them all, and they may not all work for everybody all the time, but for my money, they work often enough to be “worth their weight in gold”.

Large Standard Size Buckwheat Pillow

     Pennsylvania buckwheat pillow site offers new summer sale on large standard size buckwheat pillows. Sale includes their standard 1 full year satisfaction money back guarantee.

     That’s just in case you don’t like the adjustable personal comfort level they provide, or the advantage of being dust mite infestation free, or if you don’t appreciate all the money you’ll save due to the longevity of quality buckwheat pillows, or the perfect cervical support they provide to the head and neck area, or the cooling effect of the air ventilation through the buckwheat hulls, or their hypoallergenic freedom from allergies, or if you don’t care about their organic properties, and being made in the USA, why then just return them within a year of your purchase, and they will refund your purchase price.

     Right now they’re offering 10% off on the large standard size buckwheat bed pillow, so just take advantage of the deal and grab it. Do it right now. If you don’t, you will end up sleeping no better for the rest of your life than you have thus far. You wouldn’t want that to happen, would you?

JUST BLISSFUL SLEEP

     Buckwheat pillows have been helping people sleep for 2 to 3,000 years, but not here in good old USA. People in the Orient, where they were developed, have been using them that long. In some periods of history, they have been the pillows of royalty, and for good reason. They’ve only recently been introduced here, so many people still don’t know about them.

     No other pillow has all the advantages of providing sound sleep that buckwheat pillows do. To start with, a modern buckwheat pillow has one advantage that even the royalty couldn’t enjoy back in their heyday. Today’s modern quality buckwheat pillows have a discreetly concealed nylon zipper in one end, which allows the user to adjust the loft, or volume, of the buckwheat hull filling to their own exact comfort level. No conventional foam or feather pillow can boast of that feature.

     The advantage they’ve always had, though, is that the buckwheat hulls possess a quality that I call malleability. This is provided by minute ridges on the hulls which allow them to grip each other, which lets them conform to the exact shape and curvature of your head and neck, and provide uniformly even support to those areas without pressure spots that are inherent in conventional foam and feather pillows. However, they still let you easily change positions, and they will adjust effortlessly to your new position. It’s as close to magic as a pillow can get. In addition, this quality actually improves with use as the hulls polish to a certain degree through use.

     Still another feature which adds to their ability to provide exceptionally sound sleep, is their propensity to allow air to circulate through the pillow, providing ventilation which helps cool your head as it traps less heat and moisture than conventional pillows.

     These buckwheat pillows have many more advantages in areas other than the ability to provide deep sound sleep. These include economical, health, hypoallergenic, dust mite infestation resistance, and green issues.

     The poor old conventional pillows are really obsolete, except that some people just haven’t found out yet. It’s funny how something with so many advantages could have been developed and in use in the orientthousands of years ago, while it’s been like a big secret in most of the western world for all these years.

     Finally the so called modern world is finally catching up with the so called ancient world. Of course we have added a few modern touches, like the concealed nylon zipper. Best invest in a modern buckwheat pillow before you get labeled as “Old Fashioned”. That could be embarrassing.

QUALITY BUCKWHEAT PILLOW

I keep forgetting that buckwheat pillows are not as familiar to everyone as they are to me, as I’ve been sleeping on no other pillow for probably close to twenty years, but I’m one of the lucky ones. I don’t remember where, but somehow I heard  about them, and mostly out of curiosity, I investigated them, and am so glad I did.

A short answer is that a buckwheat pillow is simply a pillow cover filled with buckwheat hulls.

However, you need a bit more information than that in order to make an informed decision regarding investing in your own buckwheat pillow, because if you were to buy a cheap imported one, you may well become disenchanted with buckwheat pillows, and that would be a shame.

Here are some features that you want to be sure are included in your buckwheat pillow.

1. Triple vacuumed buckwheat hulls - necessary to remove all traces of flour and foreign matter in order to render the hulls hypoallergenic (a small percentage of people are allergic to buckwheat flour).
2. A concealed nylon zipper in one end of the pillow to allow for adjusting the volume of hulls in the pillow. This is one of the biggest advantages of a buckwheat pillow, as it allows you to select your own particular comfort setting.
3. Verification that the components of your pillow are 100% organic, to preclude the possibility of coming in contact with harmful residues from pesticides, herbicides, or other detrimental chemicals.
4. A high quality pillow cover that will hold up for many years of use, because buckwheat pillows do not need replacing due to dust mite infestations, as do conventional pillows.
5. Make sure your pillow is of the dimensions you would expect of the size pillow you want. In other words, a buckwheat queen size bed pillow should be basically the same dimensions as a conventional queen size bed pillow. Many cheap buckwheat pillows are of a disappointingly small size.
6. Beware of pillows made using roasted buckwheat hulls. Roasting the hulls dries out the natural oils and shortens their life. The only reason for this is because federal law requires imported buckwheat hulls to be roasted to deter introduction of foreign insects or bacteria into the U.S.

If you abide by these guidelines, you can be assured of a buckwheat pillow that will give you many years of the most comfortable sleep that a pillow can provide.

QUALITY BUCKWHEAT PILLOW

     A quality buckwheat pillow is the most economical choice in todays poor economy where money is really tight. I know this runs counter to your first thoughts which probably run something like “I know cheap things don’t generally last very long, but it’l do until things pick up, and then I can afford to buy a really good one which will perform a lot better as well as last much longer”. However, there’s a fly in the ointment.

     Even the most optimistic economists are saying that this will be a long, slow recovery. Many are questioning whether we will ever be able to fully recover. My view is that buying a cheap imported buckwheat pillow is the wrong choice to make in this economic atmosphere. By investing in the best quality buckwheat pillow you can purchase, it will carry you through for the long haul, and you will save far more money than you would have if you had to replace that cheap pillow every time it fell apart.

     The satisfaction won’t come only from all the money you’ll save, but also in the greater comfort and service it will provide. This lesson applies not only to buckwheat pillows, but to any purchases you must make in these economic doldrums. Quality and length of service should be the determining factors in making purchases to be economically wise.

MY WORD IS MY BOND

6. But what if my mother comes up with some off the wall reason that she just doesn’t want a buckwheat pillow because, for example, she’s superstitious, and believes her hair will fall out if she sleeps on any form of pillow other than a stuffed dead cat? Then what?

A. If your mother gives you that reason for not wanting a buckwheat pillow, then I would lovingly stroke her hair and tell her that you certainly would not want to see her hair fall out, but that you would still love her even if it did.

 Then return the pillow to me (assuming you bought it from me), But don’t tell me the reason, because I am prone to laughing, and I wouldn’t want to die from laughing, at least not just yet.

Buckwheat Glory.com (that would be me) provides a one full year money back guarantee, no questions asked, if for ANY reason you are not satisfied with your Buckwheat Glory.com buckwheat pillow, just return it for a full purchase price money return. Just be sure you call first to get return instructions.

Then go to a taxidermist with a roadkill cat and a bag of organic, N American grown, triple vacuumed hypoallergenic buckwheat hulls, and instruct them to make your mother a kitty cat buckwheat pillow with a concealed nylon zipper. You’d probably best not tell your mother that it is filled with buckwheat hulls instead of kitty gu…..s, as that may not suit her. Good luck.

This is my final answer to all the reasons (excuses) for not buying your mother a buckwheat pillow for mothers day, or any other person or day, for that matter.

5. I hear buckwheat pillows can aggrevate allergies and asthma.

A. Again, the key word is “quality”. Cheap, usually imported buckwheat pillows may actually do these things, because they usually have not been triple vacuumed to remove flour and foreign matter.

 A very low percentage of people are allergic to buckwheat flour, about 3%. Quality buckwheat pillows have been triple vacuumed to remove any traces of buckwheat flour, and are considered hypoallergenic ( not supportive of allergies).

So, just by sticking with quality  buckwheat pillows, you will be getting organic, handmade, triple vacuumed, hypoallergenic buckwheat pillows

BUCKWHEAT HYPOALLERGENIC PILLOWS

made of N. American grown products. That’s how you solve that problem. If the product description doesn’t tout these features, you can be sure they don’t have them.

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