Buckwheat pillow? How to maintain buckwheat pillows?
What is a buckwheat pillow?
Cheap buckwheat pillows are mostly filled with buckwheat crust, which is incomplete and easy to break, and the health treatment effect is slightly poor. High-quality buckwheat pillows are mostly buckwheat husks, which are good in shells. The buckwheat is divided into bitter buckwheat and sweet buckwheat. Due to the fabric differences, it is best to use pure cotton coarse cloth for buckwheat pillows. Design differences, high-quality buckwheat pillows are more ergonomic, can adjust the height of the pillow, think more thoughtful, and have a fashionable and beautiful design.
The buckwheat pillow has the functions of opening up the orifices, promoting blood circulation and urination, calming the mind, enhancing the brain, regulating the internal organs, and regulating yin and yang. After special processing, the medicines that are used as pillow cores are put into the pillow, or are made into thin medicine bags and placed on ordinary pillows. When sleeping, the pillow can achieve the effect of smelling fragrance and curing diseases. This treatment method is the specific application of the theories of the four qi and five flavors of traditional Chinese medicine, rising, falling, floating and sinking, and meridians. During sleep, the head warm makes the effective ingredients of the medicine in the pillow slowly emit, and the fragrance condenses around the pillow. Its smell is light but not thin, it is not weak for a long time, it is clear but not turbid but not dull, it is dispersed but not gone. Buckwheat pillow is a filling for the pillow core with buckwheat shells. Due to the unique structure of buckwheat shells, it has good breathability, never deformity, strong plasticity, warm winter and cool summer. Using buckwheat shell pillows can improve eyesight until old age, clear heat and calm the mind, and promote sleep.
Purchasing tips and precautions for buckwheat pillows
Pillows made of buckwheat peels can improve eyesight when old, clear heat and cool, and promote sleep. It also has the effects of clearing the brain and improving eyesight, which has good effects on insomnia, dreams, dizziness, tinnitus and other diseases.
pillow core specifications. It mainly includes the height, length, width, and special shapes. A suitable pillow should make people have an S-shaped cervical curve when lying down, and the inclination of the face is about 5 degrees. The occipital core is too high, which will affect the curvature of the cervical spine and tracheal ventilation. Pillow core cover quality. The function of the pillow core cover is to collect filler, and cannot reveal buckwheat peels, impurities, etc., and should be breathable and not fade. The fiber content, sewing and appearance quality only meet the product standards of pillows and cushions. The quality of the filling buckwheat crust. It mainly includes physical indicators and sanitary indicators such as buckwheat husk content percentage, moisture content, impurity content rate. The percentage of buckwheat husk content is an important indicator to ensure the elasticity, comfort and breathability of buckwheat husks. It is better to reach more than 80%. The moisture content of buckwheat crust should be controlled below 14% to ensure that it does not become moldy during transportation and use, resulting in respiratory infections during human use. Pay attention to safety requirements including the fillings must not have odors, such as moldy, oily, insecticide residual odor, etc. There must be no harmful impurities such as metal or sharp objects in the pillow core, such as needles, iron wires, etc. Hygiene requirements include that pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus and hemolytic streptococci should not be detected in the filler. There must be no insects or egg insects that are seen with the naked eye.
How to maintain buckwheat pillows?
Many people will think of using more traditional methods to clean buckwheat skin pillows, but it is inconvenient to clean it in this way. Find a piece of gauze to make the buckwheat peel pillow the size of a cloth bag outside, so that the buckwheat peel can be avoided from running out when cleaning. Divide the buckwheat in the buckwheat peel pillow into three parts and put it in three batches in the cloth bag just made. You can't put too much, as it won't be washed clean if it is too much. Put the cloth bag filled with buckwheat into the washing machine to wash. Of course, you can also wash it by hand. After washing, put it in a dehydration bucket to dehydrate, which will dry faster. Repeat the above steps to know that three portions are washed and dehydrated. Take the dehydrated buckwheat to dry in the sun, so that it will dry faster and prevent the buckwheat from getting damp and moldy. Put the dried buckwheat back into the pillowcase, and the washed buckwheat skin pillow is done.
Pillow towels and pillowcases should be washed, dried and replaced frequently. The pillow core can be washed, not exposed to the sun, just dry it. It is recommended to use water below 40 degrees to clean it. As long as the skin is not very broken, you can use it all the time. When washing, soak it in clean water for two or three times, then take it out and put it in a woven bag (a bag that does not need to eat flour or rice), and slim it into the dryer, take it out to dry it in the sun, and it can be disinfected, and then it can be used.