Medicinal pillows have long been use by patients of traditional Chinese medicine. It has been scientifically proven that with ingredients which are suitable to treating a disease, these pillows that are the product medicinal herbs stuffed into a special pillow casing can permeate the air around a sleepers head and penetrate the acupuncture points on the body and be absorbed either by the skin or through mucous membrane. The end result is that the patients disease is cured.

Natural medicines which are either herbal or derived from animal parts are blended in proportions according to a formula designed for the treatment of a certain disease before they are stuffed into a medicinal pillow.

There are many uses for and recipes for the contents of these pillows which people will use in place of a standard sleeping pillow. A pillow filled with the mixture of buckwheat husk and silkworm thread is effective in cooling and increasing the presence of yin; a pea-filled pillow helps cure sunstroke and dizziness; and a pillow stuffed with white chrysanthemum, pea skin, buckwheat husk, mulberry leaves and cassia seeds is used for treatment of diseases of the eyes.

The medicinal pillow comes handy as a medical aid. When one falls asleep with his head on such a pillow, his nose, tongue, skin and acupuncture points can absorb the essence of what is stuffed in it to prevent or cure disease or protect his health.