Grauer Thomas (Zürich)

About us There are five Chinese medicine specialists working in our practice.

We all have decades of experience in our respective fields. We look forward to putting this to work for you.

We work without employees and without practice assistants (MPA). You can get an appointment either by phone or by e-mail directly with the respective person.

The treatments with the doctors are covered by the basic insurance, with the naturopaths by the supplementary insurance for alternative medicine.

The medicines we prescribe come from China. They are tested in Switzerland by the importer, Complemedis AG in Trimbach SO, for purity and undesirable stresses. You can obtain the prescriptions from St.Peter-Apotheke in Zurich. Each prescription is accompanied by a reclaim voucher. The drug costs are covered by the supplementary insurance.

Traditional Chinese Medicine TCM Traditional Chinese Medicine is a medical system whose roots go back more than 2000 years and whose procedures are increasingly used all over the world today. It supplements modern orthodox medicine with areas that have been pushed to the sidelines in the controversy surrounding the natural sciences:

Mainly these are the areas

Prevention of diseases, Help for self-help (Chinese: yang sheng) gentle treatment of diseases, taking into account the whole organism, and Healing/regeneration after an illness. Here, people are seen as an independent, constantly evolving unit of body, mind and spirit, as well as part of larger systems such as family, society, environment.

The main treatment methods of TCM are:

Medicinal therapy ( herbal therapy ) Acupuncture Acupressure/Tuina Breathing exercises/Qigong Advice on nutrition, exercise and everyday organization Among the diagnostic methods we use to distinguish individually different "patterns" of a disease in patients and thus compose a suitable therapy are the detailed conversation, looking at the tongue, and feeling the pulse and abdomen.