Buckwheat Pillows

For A Sore Back - A Buck Wheat Pillow

Health is a reason to buy a buckwheat pillow. Certainly not a reason to not buy a buckwheat pillow. In the last post I wrote about the health issues emanating from the dust mite problem inherent to other pillows, so I won’t repeat that scenario here.

Quality buckwheat pillows are a boon to allergy sufferers. They are thoroughly cleaned to remove any trace of flour or foreign substance, which results in a hypo-alleregenic pillow. Buckwheat pillows can be very beneficial to many different areas of the body which can be suffering from muscular or skeletal problems. Their malleability characteristics make them a favorite of chiropractors and other physicians to help relieve soreness and tension in the neck, shoulder, back, knees, or any area needing support or positioning while sleeping or resting.

But probably the most universally recognized health benefit comes from the simple advantage of a buckwheat pillow’s ability to allow totally relaxing and rejuvenating REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. In today’s hectic world, the inability of people to achieve, not only the proper amount of, but also the proper quality of, sleep, is a real health problem. It is only recently that the medical world is becoming more fully aware of the consequences of inadequate and inferior sleep. Buckwheat pillows are a welcome part of the solution, and are finally becoming recognized as such.

Buckwheat Pillows = Great Savings

The initial cost of a quality organic buckwheat pillow is comparable to that of a quality feather or foam type pillow. But then the real economics kick in.

As you may or may not know, regular pillows (foam, feather, etc.) are subject to dust mite infestations. Because of this, for health reasons, it is recommended that these type pillows be discarded every six months, as it is estimated that as much as10% of the weight of a 2 year old regular pillow is comprised of dead dust mites and their droppings.Buckwheat pillows do not support dust mite infestations.

While there are measures that can be taken to eradicate the dust mite situation with regular pillows, those measures present health problems of their own that may be as serious as the dust mite problem, so you are just trading 1 problem for another. For example, 2 of the solutions are: 1. – Treat the pillows with chemicals to eradicate the dust mites, or 2. – Place the pillow in a plastic case.

Both of these solutions result in laying your head on a pillow that emits harmful chemical toxins which you will breathe into your lungs all night long. And in the case of the plastic cover, have you ever slept with a plastic covered pillow? Even though you cover the plastic cover with a cloth material pillow case. your head still perspires profusely. Neither solution is satisfactory.

So you are left with a pillow that you need to throw away after 6 months. Over the life span of a buckwheat pillow, which will last 15 to 20 years, Look how much money you will have saved by not having to buy a new pillow every 6 months. in 15 years, that’s 29 pillows on which you didn’t have to spend your hard earned dollars. For an added bonus, the characteristics of the buckwheat hulls improve with use.

Buy Buckwheat Pillows - Why Not?

I’m going to run a series of posts here in my blog exploring the validity of any reasons anyone has not to be using buckwheat pillows on their beds and in their travels. These posts will be ruminating some of the same materials from previous posts, but from the angle of debunking reasons not to buy buckwheat pillows, rather than advancing the reasons why you should buy buckwheat pillows.

I invite and encourage all of you to feel free to join in and add your opinions, express your concerns, or argue your points. I would like everyone in America to know the advantages of buckwheat Pillows. Unfortunately, ignorance is not always bliss.

GREEN - ORGANIC BUCKWHEAT HULLS

Did you know that buckwheat grows very well on relatively poor soil? That means applying chemical fertilizers is not cost effective. Which, of course, is a good reason why chemical fertilizers are not used in the growing of buckwheat.

Did you know that buckwheat has very few insect or fungal pests? That means applying chemical pesticides and fungicides is not cost effective. Which, of course, is a good reason why chemical pesticides and fungicides are not used in the growing of buckwheat.

Did you know that buckwheat is a good ground cover? That means Buckwheat crowds out weed pests. That means applying chemical herbicides is not cost effective. Which, of course, is why chemical herbicides are not used in the growing of buckwheat.

One of the hurdles that going green faces so far is that most crops cost much more to grow organically than they do using chemical fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides. Here is one crop that can be grown organically more economically than it can otherwise.

All this boils down to one big rare point. You can have your cake and eat it too. Buckwheat can be grown organically and save money at the same time. If you really delve into all the different aspects – earth friendly, ergo green and organic, economical, hypoallergenic wise (remember the allergies associated with dust mites) health wise (think about tension headaches, deep sleep benefits) and comfort wise (the actual reason most buckwheat bed pillows are purchased) what possible reason could anyone come up with to justify purchasing any pillow other than a buckwheat pillow? I keep saying to myself, “People just don’t know”.

But now, you, at least, do know. Please do the right thing. A mind is a terrible thing to waste. Buy a buckwheat pillow. It’s a good thing.

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Buckwheat pillows are not soft! Surprised?

Soft pillows filled with down, foam, feathers, etc. are very soft. They feel really good for a while, but then they start to feel hot. A little longer, and the weight of your head has compressed the filling at the lowest part of your head until it can compress no further. So now the portion of your head that is at the lowest point has compressed the filling to where it is now beginning to feel hard.

Okay, so you reposition your head. Soon another spot on your head is making its new hard spot. Darn – have to change positions again. This could go on all night until exhaustion mercifully puts you to sleep. But it doesn’t take too long until the mounting pressure on still another hard spot causes you to shift again, although you may not fully waken. And so goes the long night.

The buckwheat pillow solves this problem by not being soft. Instead, it is malleable. The buckwheat hulls provide support to the entire area of your head in contact with the pillow, spreading the pressure over that whole area, not concentrating it on one small spot. That provides a huge difference in comfort, letting you sleep fully and comfortably throughout the night.

Meanwhile, the ventilating ability of the buckwheat hulls is keeping your head cool. I realize this may not be the most perfect explanation of how a buckwheat pillow accomplishes its near magical feat of sleeping comfort, but it’s the closest I can come to explaining it.

Actually, it must be experienced to believe it, and that’s a very good reason to buy one right now.

Buckwheat Pillow Heaven

I was just doing some work on my web site, and I happened to take a look at this picture. That’s all it took. This isn’t going to be much of a post, because I suddenly remembered how much I missed my buckwheat pillow – meaning I’m getting sleepy.

My wife is not home tonight. She’s taking care of an ailing sister-in-law. That means I have the whole bed to myself tonight – just me and my buckwheat pillows. Don’t get me wrong. I do miss my wife, but those buckwheat pillows do soothe my head, if not my heart.

The bed is short one buckwheat pillow, because, like me, my wife never goes anywhere without her buckwheat pillow. But I’m okay as long as she doesn’t take mine. If she would get the wrong one, I’d know it, because we each have our own preference for the amount of hulls we each like in our pillow. You tend to get pretty possessive about your buckwheat pillow, because you customize it to exactly the malleability that just suits you perfectly by adjusting the amount of hulls you have in your pillow. If you don’t have a buckwheat pillow to sleep on, you just don’t understand.

I really feel sorry for you, but all I can do is do my best to enlighten you, and offer to sell you one. The rest is entirely up to you. You have to go to Buckwheat Glory .com and fill out the order. I’m making it as easy and simple as I can, and I go to sleep on my buckwheat pillow with a clear conscience. I’ve done my part.

I’m purposely not putting an image in this post, because no one image serves my purpose. Instead, go to your favorite search engine, like Google, Yahoo etc., and type in “dust mites”. then surf from site to site and enjoy the pictures. These are what your pillows are full of unless you sleep on a buckwheat bed pillow. Refer back to my previous post to get the details. Not to fret. Just click on the blue hyper-link right here, and I’ll bet you can figure out what you need to do. Okay, I’ll make it simple. BUY YOUR FAMILY BUCKWHEAT PILLOWS.

removable pillow filling - buckwheat hulls

House dust mites are microscopic critters (extremely disgusting looking – I might add) that live on dead skin cells and dander. They are not known to carry contagious diseases, but do cause asthma and other allergic reactions.

It is virtually impossible to eradicate them, but the volume of them can be controlled. A single dust mite produces about 20 waste droppings per day, which contains a protein to which many people are allergic, and which cause reactions ranging from itchy eyes and chronically stuffy noses, on up to full blown asthma attacks. Estimates are that dust mites may be a factor in 50 to 80% of asthmatics, as well as unknown numbers of cases of eczema, hay fever, and other allergic reactions.

Ten percent of the weight of a 2 year old conventional pillow (as opposed to a buckwheat pillow) may be composed of dead mites and mite droppings. This is where the beauty and advantages of a buckwheat hull pillow shine. It is recommended that pillow coverings and cases be washed in very hot water at least every 2 weeks. The only pillow I know of with a loose filling that you can do this with, is a buckwheat hull filled pillow with a zipper. The other remedy is to discard the pillow at least every 6 months. That gets expensive, and a lot of dust mites can accumulate in a pillow in 6 months.

The important factor here is that the buckwheat hull filling itself does not support dust mite infestations, so when you wash the pillow cases and covers – problem solved.

Protect your family’s health and buy nothing but buckwheat pillows, including travel pillows – for obvious reasons. Just imagine what’s alive (and dead) in those motel and hotel pillows!

Buckwheat Pillows = REM Sleep

I recently was thumbing through a magazine and saw an article about “Things you should never buy off the internet”. It mentioned a number of items that I would agree you probably wouldn’t want to buy off the web.

Then I saw “pillows”. It made me stop and think. It explained how there were some things that you just needed to feel, which you obviously can’t do on the web, at least not yet. I agree with this assessment – as it pertains to most pillows, but not buckwheat pillows.

I can hear the howls of derision already. What hypocrisy. Don’t buy any pillows on the internet, with the express exception of the particular ones he happens to be selling. What obvious discrimination! Okay, wait a minute, hear me out.

Pillows, other than buckwheat pillows, can vary tremendously in their “feel”,as the “feel” of all the various qualities of different kinds of feathers, down, feather-down combinations, different densities of foam, solid vs fragmented foams, foam mixtures, etc. will each have their own distinct characteristics. Thus there would be a distinct advantage in being able to actually feel the pillow.

However, as far as “feel” is concerned, a buckwheat hull is a buckwheat hull. Pillows filled with buckwheat hulls feel like a pillow filled with buckwheat hulls. Not that there isn’t a difference in quality as in the difference in organic vs non-organic, triple vacuumed vs non-vacuumed, but you can’t feel any difference.

 The other big difference, at least where I live, is that your choice of selection would be severely limited. You’re lucky if you can find 2 stores stocking buckwheat pillows. In this part of the world they are so relatively unknown yet that there are very few stores that handle them. In addition, the reputable web merchants offer a money back satisfaction guarantee, so they can’t afford to offer something you won’t be satisfied with, and you have no risk since you can return it if it’s not what you want.

 And, importantly, you don’t need to worry about the volume of the filling, as it is adjustable via the zipper. So go ahead and order your buckwheat pillow on the web. You have everything to gain and nothing to lose.

buckwheat neck pillow

Buckwheat grows well on relatively poor soil, and chemical fertilizers are not necessary or cost effective. Buckwheat also has a very low incidence of insect or fungal pests, and thus requires no chemical insecticides or fungicides.

In light of these facts, and the fact that meeting the certification requirements of the “Certified Organic” designation is a very time consuming and expensive process, it would mean that buckwheat pillow costs would go up excessively compared to the insignificant benefits of having the “Certified” title applied.

Another factor entering into the equation, is the fact that buckwheat is grown on a much smaller scale, than are most other crops. You would still have most of the time and expense involved in meeting the “Certified” requirements spread over a significantly smaller crop production, thereby greatly increasing the per unit cost of production.

Bottom line is that it would not be economically feasible to pay a much higher price for a buckwheat pillow designated “certified” when it would be virtually identical, for all practical purposes, to a 100% organic buckwheat pillow. If the “certified” pillow doesn’t carry a much higher price tag, then it must make up the difference by using either inferior hulls, or covering material, or possibly eliminating the zipper. The only other remedy would be to simply reduce the size of the pillow, thereby using less buckwheat hulls. It’s just too big a price to pay for whatever benefit, if any, is achieved.