not the casing the fuzzy stuff, u can injest anyway you want, if u use water use bottled water, i grind mine up in a coffe grinder and ive tried putting it in tea bags and letting the contents soak out in hot water but it didnt work for me... and i tried putting the grinded up seeds in apple sauce or yogurt and it works very well. no chewing just swallow you dont even notice.. i dont know how you do with nuasea..but you should 1 or 2 dramamine 30 mins before u ingest. this helps me and i dont have no nuasea but once i did it without the dramamine and had nausea at first.