A traditional pillow isn’t much help in providing relief for either overheating at night, or snoring. However, a buckwheat pillow has been known to help with both. While a traditional pillow usually has a synthetic filler, or sometimes down feathers, buckwheat pillows are filled with buckwheat hulls. The hulls mold around your head, providing custom support where you need it most. This custom support helps to put your head in the right position to alleviate snoring, and the shape of the hulls works against overheating.
A buckwheat hull is triangular. However, since it is natural, individual hulls vary in size and the proportions of the shape. Therefore, when you sleep on the pillow, and your head compresses the hulls, they slide together and lock in place, but not perfectly like a puzzle would. There will be air pockets and gaps between the hulls. Where a traditional pillow would compress out all the air, the hulls will maintain those pockets of air. Then, the air in your room can circulate into the pillow, cooling off the pillow to be the same temperature as your room. So, in a cool room, the pillow works to keep your head cool as well.
In those whose snoring is caused by an airway that gets pinched or closed, by an unnatural angle to the neck, a buckwheat pillow can provide a lot of relief. A traditional pillow will try to return to it’s natural, uncompressed shape. This means that even if you have a proper posture before going to sleep, you could have your neck shifted throughout the night, causing you to snore. Yet, buckwheat hulls don’t move after you put them into place. They will only shift when you want them to. So, when you mold you pillow into shape before you go to sleep, the pillow will maintain that shape. Your neck will remain at it’s proper angle, and your airway will no longer be compressed.
Snoring and being overheated at night can be big problems. But, a buckwheat hull pillow can help you with both. The natural shape of the buckwheat hulls means that they fit together to provide support, while still leaving air gaps. The support keeps your airway open to help with snoring, while the air gaps let air circulate to keep your head cool all night long.