Buckwheat Pillows originated in the Orient. They’ve been in use there for between two and three thousand years. It took a long time for them to be introduced into our western culture, but now those who’ve had the opportunity to sleep on one, usually don’t want to go back to sleeping on anything else. Many take their buckwheat pillow with them any time they travel, simply because they find them so much more comfortable to sleep on.
In addition to their basic comfort, quality buckwheat pillows have many additional advantages over their more traditional counterparts. One advantage is their ability to allow ventilation of air through the tri-shaped buckwheat hulls. Their tri-shape produces spaces between themselves, which allows air to circulate between them, diminishing the hot sweaty feeling you often get on the back of your head in warm, humid weather.
Another quality which many owners are probably not even aware of, is their resistance to dust mite infestations. Many people do not know that virtually all conventional pillows, regardless of what type filling they have (other than triple vacuumed buckwheat hulls) are infested with millions of dust mites, which live off dead skin and dander cells.
These mites (they belong to the arachnid, or spider family) do not bite or harm humans, but their millions of dead bodies and feces do give off toxins and allergens that can adversely affect those prone to asthma and allergies. Dust mites will pass through buckwheat hulls, but they don’t infest them as they do all other pillow fillings, unless they have been treated or plasticized, both of which are more detrimental to humans than are dust mites.
Another very important feature not shared by conventional pillows, is that you can adjust them to your own particular comfort level. Since the comfort of buckwheat pillows is derived from malleability (the ability to form itself to the configuration of your head and support it from all sides), rather than from softness, a concealed nylon zipper is inserted in one end of the pillow, allowing you to fill the pillow to the volume which produces the very best comfort for you individually. No conventional pillow can boast of this feature.
This feature also adds to the pillow’s ability to adapt to your particular neck’s cervical curviture. which is what causes the buckwheat pillow to come so highly recommended by chiropractors. Many people report relief from a variety of afflictions ranging from neck pain to snoring to migraines to insomnia.
I wonder if those people sleeping on their buckwheat pillows two or three thousand years ago had any idea that so many humans would just now be discovering the advantages of the pillows they were already using.






