SC - Islamic alchohol?

[Christine A Seelye-King]

> On the subject of alcohol, the most tolerant of the four schools 
> holds that the prohibition applies to wine (i.e. fermented grape 
> juice) and to getting drunk on other things, but not to drinking 
> other things. And at least one interpretation holds that "drunk" 
> means "so drunk that you cannot tell the earth from the sky or a man  
> from a woman." The least tolerant school holds that it is forbidden 
> to drink any quantity at all of anything that, in sufficiently large 
> quantities, gets you drunk.

	This is very hard to deal with when followers of this particular sect
come into a health food store and want to buy a medicinal tincture
without alcohol.  Alcohol is used to extract volatile oils and
constituents from plants, often it is the only solvent that will work. 
However, there is so little alcohol in a dropper full of tincture, that
you manufacture more alcohol in your body when you eat a banana than you
get from one dose.   Explaining this to the intolerant does little good,
however, because the word of the law is being interpreted so strictly.  I
would love to be able to say "just squirt the first drop on the ground,
and you should be covered!".  
	Christianna
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