there is another way you can use the flax seed that is a remedy for constipation and that is using the whole flax seed and you do pour boiling water on it but you are not destroying the light heat and oxygen because it still got that seal on it but when you pour boiling water on it it gel a substances release that gels it and then the remedy is you put a squeeze of noa juice of an orange on and mix that and you drink it before you go to bed and all those little hole flax seeds with their gel around them basically act like a broom and so in the morning often your bowels will open