No problem. Easy. Take a tablespoon of 'Natural Vegetable Fiber', natural psyllium fiber. Mix it in a tumbler of water, and swallow it at once. Follow up with a tumbler or two of tea, coffee, water, lemonade . . . It is easier to get it to mix if you damp it first with whisky or gin to make a thick paste, and then add the water. If you are a non-alcohollie, then a drop or two of washing-up detergent liquid in the first tablespoonful of water will do just as well. It is the ground-up shell of a seed; it swells to many times its volume in water. It mixes with your food and softens and moistens it in the gut. It is absolutely non-reactive, indigestible, inert otherwise. Calling it 'fiber' is false, but reassuring to ignoramuses. You can get it in the Pharmacy Dept of every supermarket If one daily Tblsn is not enough, take one am and one pm; if too much, take less. Harmless, cheap, unfailing. Do NOT buy expensive drugs like Exlax or Metamucil, some of which produce moisture by irritating the gut wall. Geoff Stanford [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Star <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wednesday, September 30, 1998 6:16 PM Subject: [P-F] Constipation Hello, Does anybody know what will help if a person suffers from severe constipation? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks to all. Star