Buckwheat Pillows

Their attributes such as the malleability of the buckwheat hull filling  resulting in the even support of the neck area so prized by the chiropractic community, and the blissful sleep so prized by all of us, have been rapidly propelling them into the “must have” category for those who learn of them. The natural airflow ventilation provided by the hulls is another contributor to the sheer comfort of sleeping on them.

Possibly the greatest advantage of the modern buckwheat pillow, though, is the relatively recent addition in the quality pillows, of a discreetly concealed zipper, which allows the user to adjust the hull volume to their exact comfort preference. This is a huge advantage over all the other pillows.

Buckwheat hulls used to be considered a waste byproduct. The increasing popularity of buckwheat pillows has now started causing a scarcity of pillow grade hulls, to the point that the hulls are becoming more expensive than the buckwheat berries themselves.
Yes, technically, they are botanically berries, although they are used like a grain. Their nearest relative, oddly enough, is rhubarb.

The berries have been found, as a food, to be very useful in treating type 2 diabetes. The University of Manitoba in Canada has been doing extensive research in this area, and the benefits of a diet rich in buckwheat has some amazing benefits in regard to suppression of type 2 diabetes.

Perhaps, with the epidemic of type 2 diabetes we are experiencing in this country, we could promote the use of buckwheat in our diets. This would produce two benefits. It would help alleviate the injurious effects of type 2 diabetes, and with increased demand for the food, would naturally come an increas in production of buckwheat hulls, which would in turn result in lower prices for them to be used in providing buckwheat pillow filling.

So, add buckwheat to your diet.

     Buckwheat pillows are getting deceptive competition. Out of curiosity, I bought one of those so-called Sobakawa plastic bead cloud pillows you find advertised on TV for $19.99.

      I won’t go into the details of the hassle or the time it took me to get it. That’s a story for another time.

     Considering that I was interested in debunking what I suspected was a poor excuse at competition with my organic handcrafted buckwheat pillows, I was not disappointed. They are a poor excuse.

     First of all, who wants to be breathing fumes off of plastic beads all night? Plastics in any form are neither organic nor hypoallergenic, and they emit dangerous toxic vapors, especially troublesome when you’re sleeping on them and breathing their fumes directly into your lungs all night long, unlike organic buckwheat hulls.

     Secondly, the degree of support they provide is minimal, if even detectable. The round plastic beads lack the tiny ridges which provide the malleability factor inherent in buckwheat hulls, resulting in a very wishy washy attempt at support. I would describe it as fluidity, rather than malleability.

     Thirdly, the one I bought does not have a concealed nylon zipper to allow the user to adjust the volume of filling to their own personal comfort level. This particular feature gives buckwheat pillows a huge advantage over their competitors.

     So, already, they are lacking 3 of the most important advantages that genuine buckwheat pillows have over conventional foam or feather pillows. I also found them to be as hot as any pillow I’ve ever slept on with the possible exception of the temperature sensitive foam pillows, which are akin to sleeping on top of a furnace heat vent. So now they’re lacking the 4th important advantage of a buckwheat pillow.

     On top of all these glaring shortcomings, their promoters have the audacity to apply the name sobakawa to them. Sobakawa is the Japanese word for buckwheat. This is an attempt to transfer the worldwide recognition of the term sobakawa from genuine buckwheat pillows to these inferior knockoffs trying to masquerade as viable competitors.

     This alone should give you a clue as to the character and ethics of these promoters out for the fast buck.

     Again, the old cliche’ of “you get what you pay for” applies. While the cheap price is certainly tempting in these hard economic times, you will be no more satisfied with these cheap plastic bead pillows than you would be with a cheap imported version of a buckwheat pillow.

     For genuine support, comfort, and durability along with a genuinely healthy, refreshing sleeping experience, invest in a quality, USA made, organic, hypoallergenic buckwheat hull pillow. You’ll be so glad you did.

     But don’t take my word for it. For more reviews, I would suggest logging onto  http://we-rate-stuff.com/2010/06/sobakawa-cloud-pillow.html. Then go check out some genuine quality bargain buckwheat pillows.

     Buckwheat pillow buyers can be a curious lot, but I don’t blame them. Many of them have never had any experience with a buckwheat pillow, so a degree of curiosity is a healthy trait.

     I had someone email me a couple of questions I’d never gotten before, one to which I’d never given any thought. I’ll just give you the context of their email.

     ” I have never used these pillows before, but would really like to try them. How long have you been in business is my first question and secondly, I have read where some say that you should use a buckwheat pillow that is somewhat smaller than standard. Is that true? Thanks!”

     So here is my answer to them.

1 Key To Sleep Relief

     Natural sleep aids, to be really effective, need to address more than one issue. Two of the more common ones are pain relief and comfort.

      It goes without saying, that it’s difficult to achieve satisfactory, refreshing sleep, when you’re dealing with either pain, particularly neck pain, or any degree of discomfort.

     People’s first inclination today seems to be to reach for the pill bottle. We are becoming a nation dependent on chemicals.

 Sooner or later, in one way or another, they eventually come back to bite you. This is as inevitable as depending on the government to be your nanny. History and evidence prove these points over and over. There is a lot of truth in that old axiom about those who ignore the lessons of history being doomed to repeat them.

     May I submit to you, that one of the simpler, but more effective natural sleep remedies, is the venerable buckwheat hull pillow. Having been used for that purpose for thousands of years, it has obviously proven itself through a long history. Pay heed to the lessons of history.

     While generally having been believed to be an invention from the Orient, more recent evidence indicates that they actually imported their appreciation for the therapeutic benefits of the buckwheat pillow from ancient Egyptians, going back many more thousands of years than what was previously believed.

     So, as a part of your regimen to attack the age old problem of acquiring adequate and gratifying sleep, take a lesson from history, and invest in a quality, organic, buckwheat pillow. They provide advantages no conventional pillow can match when it comes to getting a good night’s sleep.

     Natural sleep aids that work, are far superior to the chemical kind, for a number of reasons. There are no side effects. This is important both short term and long term.

     Sleeping pills, often in spite of what they sometimes advertise, often leave you feeling groggy or strung out the next morning. Worse, you  soon find yourself dependent on them, which amounts to a form of addiction.

     Your body has enough to deal with in trying to stay healthy in today’s chemically dependent world. Just the chemicals saturating the water, the prepared foods, and virtually everything we eat, drink, breath, or touch, is enough to eventually simply overwhelm our bodies defenses.

      It’s no wonder degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, strokes, and heart disease, just to mention a few, are becoming so prevalent. While we’re trying to sleep should be a time for our body to recuperate from the chemical attacks it’s tried to fend off all day.

     The last thing we should do while we sleep is saturate it with more chemicals as it’s trying to recuperate. So what’s a body to do, if you just really need some help falling and staying asleep, you ask.

     There are a number of remedies you can avail yourself of, and the use of a combination of these may well be the answer to your problem. Some of them may require a little willpower initially, like forgoing that before bed dish of chocolate ice cream, or whatever your particular culinary, before bed time, weakness happens to be.

     For most people, a relatively cool bedroom helps (helps with the heat bill, too). If you like to go to bed with the TV or radio on, that’s generally advised to be a no no. If your sleeping quarters are subject to extraneous noise, you might invest in one of those “white noise” transmitters.

     Try to wind down before retiring. Relax with a book, or soothing music, and maybe sip on some chamomile tea (it has a calming influence). Some say sex can put you in a relaxed mood. I couldn’t say. I’m 72. I don’t remember.

     Comfort is paramount. Perhaps soft flannel sheets, or maybe you should try the new bamboo sheets. Sleeping in the buff can be a most relaxing sleeping style for some. I can think of a few situations where this may not be advisable.

     There are quite a few websites that offer many more suggestions along these lines. However, having said all this, I have saved my best and most promising natural sleep aid until last.

     Now, being an honest man, I must tell you that I have a vested interest in this most promising natural sleeping aid. I sell these. What are these? These are organic, handcrafted buckwheat hull pillows. I sell the highest quality buckwheat pillows I can find, because quality is the key when it comes to buckwheat pillows.

     Their biggest advantages are twofold. First, they possess a characteristic called malleability. This means that they conform to the exact curvature of your head and neck, providing perfectly even support to that  cervical area. This is critical to sleeping comfort.

      Nature provides this unique characteristic by providing minute ridges on the buckwheat hulls, which causes them to cling to each other just enough to provide this malleability factor. Interestingly, this characteristic actually improves with use as they polish slightly.

     Secondly, they have a discreetly concealed nylon zipper, which allows you to adjust the volume of buckwheat hulls in your pillow to your exact comfort level. No conventional foam or feather pillow can compete. To get the full story (there’s lots more), just go to www.buckwheatglory.com.

      Buckwheat pillows, or to be more precise, the reasons that you need to sleep on one, have been the focus of nearly all of my blogging efforts to date. I’ve been bombarding you with all the logical and sensible reasons I know of to convince you that a buckwheat pillow is the be all and end all of the pillow choices of the world.

       You are all probably getting very bored and tired of my relentless advocacy of the reasons you have to sleep on one of my buckwheat pillows. About now, I’ll bet many of you wish I would just throw in the towel, and say something like “I give up. If I haven’t been able to convince you by now that you absolutely need a buckwheat pillow to get a really good night’s sleep, then you must be simply unteachable. I’m not wasting any more  time and effort on you.”

     Well, maybe you wish I would, and maybe some of you think I will.

     If so, you will be disappointed, primarily because my efforts have been too  successful to even consider doing that. The sales of my buckwheat pillows have been almost doubling each month. This, in spite of a very adverse economy.

     My only problem is that I feel like I’m sort of in a rut. I’ve been explaining , and promoting, and cajoling, and marketing, until I feel like I need to take a break from pursuing this angle. But I’m afraid to deviate from my path, because of the “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” credo.

     However, on reflection, I don’t know if my success is actually the result of anything so tenuous as just my proficiency at expounding on the desireability of sleeping on  buckwheat pillows. I believe an appreciable amount of my business comes from word of mouth of my satisfied customers, because I notice that a fair amount of my customers addresses seem to be clustered in certain areas.

     This indicates to me that happy customers are quietly spreading the word to their friends and relatives, and I know for sure, that many customers return and buy additional pillows for other family members and friends.

      I’ve also noticed an increase in the number of  comments being typed in on the orders, telling me that they were ordering because of others telling them how much they loved sleeping on their buckwheat pillows they had purchased from me.

     May I take this opportunity to thank all of you who have been so gracious as to share  your experiences of sleeping bliss with your friends and relatives. Nothing that I could say in my promotions could ever have the impact that your testimonies, as a satisfied customer, do.

     I appreciate this very much, as do, I’m sure, the friends and relatives to whom you have conveyed your satisfaction.

     And to those of you, my customers who have not been sharing your experiences of sleeping bliss with your acquaintances, please do. They will be forever grateful.

     Don’t take this to mean that I promise that every single person will find a buckwheat pillow to be the answer to their quest for the perfect pillow. I mean, to be perfectly honest, it’s like, there are people out there who do not like chocolate, or moonlight nights.

     However, I do guarantee your purchase price back for one full year if you are not satisfied , so why would you not at least give them a try? The chance of anyone not finding them to be more than satisfactory has proven to be very slim.

     You know, I started out with this blog post, thinking I was going to give you and myself a big break. I was not going to promote, per se, buckwheat pillows. I was not going to explain, again, why you should buy a buckwheat pillow.

     Guess what! I think I’ve succeeded. Instead of explaining why you should buy one, I’ve just explained why you should help me sell some. I’m beginning to think I’m a marketing genius (lol).

     I just hope you all have as much satisfaction in sharing your love of buckwheat pillows, or more precisely, your love of blissful sleep, as I do.

     Sleep tight.

Blissful sleep is universally desired, but is also universally very elusive. It requires a complex plethora of conditions to come together in order to be satisfactorily achieved.

That is not to say you can’t fall asleep at all, but just falling asleep is not the equivalent of what I mean by blissful sleep. There is a difference.

If only a few things which contribute to blissful sleep are missing, you probably won’t experience it. One important thing often missing is a really comfortable pillow.

Different people find different kinds of pillows to be most conducive to blissful sleep. Most people have some idea of the pillow characteristics which they feel would most likely best suit their needs.

However, these ideas are somewhat preconceived, based on their experience with the pillows they have slept on in the past. If there is a pillow with which they have had no previous experience, especially if it is totally adjustable as to their own personal comfort requirements, they would be well advised to experiment with that pillow.

Buckwheat pillows are not like other pillows. They are not soft, like down. They are not compressable like foam. They are malleable, a new term when it comes to pillows.

Well, not exactly new, since they have been in use nearly 3,000 years in the Orient. But here, most people have had no experience with a buckwheat pillow.

For some, like me, that first experience is all they need. For others, it may take a little getting used to. I thank my lucky stars that I made the effort to experiment with buckwheat pillows, because I know now that I never really knew what blissful sleep was before I started sleeping on a buckwheat pillow.

Just buy from a vendor (like me) who offers a full year money back satisfaction guarantee at www.buckwheatglory.com.

For Neck Pain - Buckwheat Pillows

     Buckwheat pillows are becoming more and more universally recognized as an important tool in therapeutic pain relief in the spinal as well as other skeletal and neurological areas by chiropractors and other medical professionals. The wide recognition of this frequently results in questions being raised as to how best to make use of these buckwheat pillows in alleviating various pains and maladies.

     My answer to these queries, is that a professional chiropractor or therapist would be the proper venue in which to seek these answers. These problems can be very complex, sometimes having their origins in parts of the body located no where near the perceived pain.

     I can envision a scenario in which, by relieving some local pain or discomfort, a person could cause more harm than good. Perhaps applying the comforting support of a buckwheat pillow to your back, or under a hip, to provide relief on a temporary basis to allow you to get a good night’s sleep until you can get a professional diagnosis would not be a bad idea.

     Treating your back or hip pain, over a prolonged period without professional medical advice, may be analogous to medicating  miss-diagnosed heart burn with anti-acids. This often results in masking a serious heart condition that may result in a heart attack. Better safe than sorry.

     None of what I’m saying should be mis-construed to mean that buckwheat pillows are not helpful in providing relief of back, neck, or hip pain. Chiropractors advise their patients to use buckwheat pillows to provide support to backs, hips, necks, etc. on an ever increasing frequency, after they have performed a professional diagnosis of the problem.

    If you, or someone you know, is experiencing discomfort from what you perceive to be a misaligned vertebrae, pinched sciatic nerve, etc., my advise would be to make an appointment with a chiropractor, and ask them if a buckwheat pillow would be helpful in your treatment. They should then advise you on how best to benefit from various applications of them.

I CAN HELP

     Buckwheat pillows for neck and back pain are what chiropractors are advising for their patients suffering from these maladies. Buckwheat pillows have this unique characteristic known as malleability. This is due to the tiny ridges on the buckwheat hulls which cause the individual hulls to adhere to each other just enough to provide gentle support. At the same time they allow you to change position effortlessly.

     No other filling has this same quality. The pain relief provided by these pillows is not limited to joint and muscle pain. They also give relief to many who suffer from migraine headaches, and those who simply have trouble falling or staying asleep.

     Lots of people, though, who wouldn’t dream of sleeping on anything but a buckwheat pillow, actually have none of the aforementioned problems. They simply wouldn’t use any other pillow only because they just love that blissful sleep they enjoy night after night.

     Have you ever wakened up at night with your pillow feeling hot and clammy? That’s because conventional foam and feather pillows act as insulation, trapping all that heat generated from your head as you sleep. Buckwheat hulls allow air circulation in between themselves, thus that heat is circulated away from your head as you sleep.

     Have you ever heard the term, blissful sleep? Well, whether you suffer from neck and back pain, or you simply appreciate blissful sleep, a buckwheat pillow will do the trick. Of course you have to actually buy them and sleep on them to experience this blissful sleep. So invest in yours now. Especially now, as I have all of them on sale at the moment. May you have blissful sleep for 30 % of the rest of your life. 30 % is the approximate amount of our lives that we spend sleeping. Now go order your blissful sleep.

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     My buckwheat pillows’s value in one important area, I must confess, has been woefully neglected on my part. I had noticed that I was getting sales in several rather concentrated areas, and I couldn’t figure out why.

     The answer came from an unexpected (by me ) source, and caused me to realize I was totally missing a big selling point. The first clue came when I got an email from a chiropractic clinic telling me how beneficial my buckwheat pillows were to their patients, and that they were recommending to every one of their patients that they acquire one of my pillows.

     Shortly after that, I got a call from an elderly lady who didn’t use a computer, and ordered a buckwheat pillow  by phone. In the course of our conversation, she told me she had recently had a back operation, and her doctor had told her to purchase one of my pillows to help her recover from her back operation, and to provide support for her back in the future.

     That gave me an idea, and I checked the areas from which I had been receiving  concentrations of pillow orders. Sure enough, the areas where those doctors were practicing were the same areas where my sales were concentrated, and I hadn’t even thought about my pillows being used for that purpose. I had, myself, experienced the difference buckwheat pillows provide in cervical support to the neck area, and in providing blissful sleep, but had not been so unfortunate as to have experienced the back problems.

     I am very thankful to have not had those back problems to contend with, but I don’t know why I didn’t think about the many people, many of whom I know, who do. I apologize for that oversight.

     So I hereby take inspiration and direction from my customers chiropractors and surgeons, and proclaim to those of you who suffer from back problems, that you need to follow their advise and use a buckwheat pillow against your back to provide the support you need in that area while sleeping.

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