Classical foundations. Modern judgement. A deeply personal standard of care.

1. Herbal medicine

   Liu Qin (刘勤)

   Heilongjiang, China

   Phoebus’s herbal medicine is rooted in the Yin-nourishing (Ziyin) school. Through an apprenticeship alongside his university training, he studied with Professor Liu Qin — honoured as one of Heilongjiang’s provincially recognised eminent physicians of Chinese medicine, a master of the Ziyin school, and an heir to the lineage of Pu Fuzhou (蒲辅周), one of twentieth-century China’s most celebrated physicians. That formative influence shaped Phoebus’s academic outlook, and still informs how he approaches fertility, women’s health and long-term restoration.

2. Pulse acupuncture

   Fu Songqing (傅嵩青)

   Osaka, Japan

   Phoebus practises the Nanjing-classic tradition of pulse acupuncture: read the pulse, place a needle, read the pulse again — an exacting, remarkably gentle discipline in which the body’s own response guides every step of treatment. He trained in this lineage with Fu Songqing, the Nanjing-trained doctor and former cardiac surgeon whose Osaka practice has drawn practitioners from across Asia and Europe, and who serves as vice-president of the pulse research committee of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies.

3. Structural treatment

   Lin Liang-Chuan (林兩傳)

   Taiwan

   Phoebus’s structural work draws on the method of the Taiwanese physician Lin Liang-Chuan, which reads the body’s fascia, joints and skeletal alignment as one continuous, tension-bearing system. Refined through study with Dr Lin, it is less a technique for pain than a way of understanding how the body’s structure organises symptoms of many kinds — applied here from persistent musculoskeletal patterns to posture, breathing and facial acupuncture.

These lineages are why patients often describe treatment here as unusually gentle, precise and considered — techniques refined over decades, passed on in person, and practised daily.