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Non Electric Heating Pad safe and effective against aches and pain
In recent years the non electric heating pad has become very popular. This is because of the the growing use of microwaves in the past 30 years. Microwavable heating pads come in all sizes and shapes and with many different types of filling. Filling agents include rice, corn, pop corn sand, bird seed, gel, micro beads, flax seed, herbs, buckwheat hulls, wheat and cherry pits. Many people believe that the electric heating pad came first - Actually, heating pads have been around for 100's of years, even before the advent of electricity. As an example cherry pits have been used in Switzerland and the surround countries for years. In "the good old days" Cherry pit heating pads were heated on the warming plate part of the wood burning stove and then used as a bed warmer, hand warmer, foot warmer, bread warmer, pain reliever and much more. On cold days mothers would put warmed cherry pits in the mittens of kids as they went to school. When and they reached school they could simply take of the mittens, let the pits fall to the ground, and enter the school. The
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