
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.