Medicinal pillows were long in use in traditional Chinese medicine. Modern medical science has proved that the efficacious ingredients of the medicinal herbs stuffed into such pillows can volatilize, penetrate the acupuncture points and be absorbed by skin or mucous membrane to cure a diseases. Natural herbal or animal medicines are mixed according to a formula designed for the treatment of a certain disease before they are stuffed into a medicinal pillow.
- a pillow filled with the mixture of buckwheat husk and silkworm excrement has a good cooling effect; a pea-filled pillow helps cure sunstroke and dizziness
- buckwheat husk, mulberry leaves and cassia seeds is used for treatment of eye diseases.
The medicinal pillow comes in handy as a medical aid. Falling asleep with one's head on such a pillow, the nose, tongue, skin and acupuncture points will absorb the essence of what is stuffed in it to prevent or cure diseases or protect one's health.
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