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                        I, too, agree that Lysine is the magic vitamin and preventor/and healer of Canker Sores.  My son suffered with them all his young life and my health food store recommended them.  He takes one (I think 500 or 1,000) mg. a day) for maintainance.  Then, IF he gets a sore, which hardly ever does, he takes 3 a day and that heals it up in a few days.It is a wonderful discovery for us.  Stress seems to bring them on in his younger years.  He now is 23 and rarely gets one because of the maintaince dose he takes everyday.