The founder

Captain Gray's story

It started with a truck and a mortar blast crater. Serving in Vietnam, the vehicle Captain Gray was riding in dropped its rear axle into an unmarked blast site. The soldiers in the back were thrown against the roof and back down onto hard wooden benches. Not a dramatic combat injury — but it hurt the same.

Back in the States about a year later, his back gave out completely. He was paralyzed, unable to stand on his own. Navy doctors told him there was nothing they could do for his type of injury.

So he decided to solve it himself.

Captain Gray's background was unusual for a pain researcher. He had trained as a Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Warfare Officer in the USAF. He held a degree from Texas A&M in Animal Nutrition, Chemistry, and Biology. A few years after his injury, he began running a regional wholesale natural food distribution business with access to a large library of natural health resources, herbs, and herb oils.

He spent years studying the great herbalists — Dr. Christopher and others — testing combinations, reading centuries of documented plant medicine, and asking one question: what will actually get deep enough to work?

In the mid-1970s, he found the answer. Pain Eraser worked. He's used it every day since. Many mornings, barely able to walk, he would apply it and within seconds could move normally. That kind of result doesn't happen with ordinary topicals.