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”.