Tips for cleaning buckwheat pillows

Sleeping for a long time with a buckwheat pillow is good for the cervical spine. The trace elements in the buckwheat pillow will enter the body while people sleep and enhance memory. But buckwheat pillows cannot be used for a long time. Buckwheat pillows need to be cleaned once every three weeks. Cleaning must be done very carefully. If the inside of the buckwheat pillow is not cleaned thoroughly, there may be damp insects that will crawl onto the person while the person is sleeping. And after cleaning the buckwheat pillow, you should also pay attention to maintenance.

1. How to clean buckwheat pillow

1. Pour out the buckwheat husks from the pillow, sift out the debris, spread it out and put it in the sun to dry;

2. Put the buckwheat husks into a bag made of gauze or screen (the size depends on the amount of buckwheat husks), put it in the washing machine to wash and dry, or you can wash it by hand. How to clean buckwheat pillow? Don’t put too much buckwheat husk in the bag at one time, you can wash it several times;

3. Spread the washed buckwheat husks out in the sun to dry thoroughly;

4. Put the dried buckwheat husk into the pillow so that you can continue to enjoy a healthy and comfortable sleep.

2. Disadvantages of buckwheat pillows

1. The disadvantage of buckwheat husk pillow is that it is not soft enough, and the pillow makes noise when the head and neck move. If the processing is not good, the remaining buckwheat powder will become moldy and infested with insects due to moisture.

2. Experiments have found that buckwheat pillows are the dirtiest

The School of Animal Science of Beijing Agricultural College previously conducted a series of experiments in which they cultured bacteria for 24 hours on four types of pillow cores that are most commonly used by residents: buckwheat husks, fluffy cotton, down, and tea stalks. The experimental results show that pillow cores made of buckwheat husk have the largest total number of colonies, which means they are the dirtiest; while the cleanest pillow cores are made of down.

3. Buckwheat pillow benefits

1. Medicines with the functions of aromatic invigoration, blood circulation, tranquilization, mental improvement, brain refreshing, internal organs conditioning, and yin and yang adjustment are specially processed and loaded into the pillow as pillow cores. When sleeping, the pillow can be used to achieve the effect of smelling the fragrance and curing diseases.

2. Due to the unique structure of buckwheat husk, it has good air permeability, never deforms, has strong plasticity, and keeps warm in winter and cool in summer.

3. It contains pure natural beneficial ingredients, which have the effects of strengthening the brain and improving eyesight, eliminating fatigue, astringing sweat, regulating qi and blood, cooling and relieving heat, warming in winter and cooling in summer, and can prevent bleeding caused by fragile capillaries.