What You'll Do

  • Formulate herbal preparations to treat conditions considering herbal properties, such as taste, toxicity, effects of preparation, contraindications, and incompatibilities.
  • Maintain and follow standard quality, safety, environmental, and infection control policies and procedures.
  • Maintain detailed and complete records of health care plans and prognoses.
  • Dispense herbal formulas and inform patients of dosages and frequencies, treatment duration, possible side effects, and drug interactions.
  • Consider Western medical procedures in health assessment, health care team communication, and care referrals.
  • Adhere to local, state, and federal laws, regulations, and statutes.
  • Treat patients using tools, such as needles, cups, ear balls, seeds, pellets, or nutritional supplements.
  • Educate patients on topics, such as meditation, ergonomics, stretching, exercise, nutrition, the healing process, breathing, or relaxation techniques.
  • Evaluate treatment outcomes and recommend new or altered treatments as necessary to further promote, restore, or maintain health.
  • Assess patients' general physical appearance to make diagnoses.

Essential Skills

Active Listening 3.88/5
Critical Thinking 3.75/5
Social Perceptiveness 3.75/5
Service Orientation 3.75/5
Speaking 3.62/5
Judgment and Decision Making 3.5/5
Reading Comprehension 3.25/5
Monitoring 3.25/5
Complex Problem Solving 3.25/5
Writing 3.12/5
Active Learning 3.12/5
Coordination 3.12/5

Career Fit Overview

Use this summary to understand the kind of profile this role rewards. It helps you judge whether this career looks like a stronger match than your current role, a nearby move worth exploring, or a broader path to compare more seriously.

Top passions

  • Helper: Supporting people and making a difference matters to you.
  • Analyst: Investigating problems and finding patterns keeps you engaged.
  • Maker: Building and fixing energizes you. You like tangible results and practical tools.

Common styles

Attention to Detail, Dependability, Empathy, Cautiousness, Integrity

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Key Abilities

This career demands strong capabilities in the following areas:

Oral Comprehension 3.88/5
Oral Expression 3.88/5
Problem Sensitivity 3.88/5
Deductive Reasoning 3.88/5
Near Vision 3.88/5
Written Comprehension 3.75/5
Inductive Reasoning 3.62/5
Written Expression 3.25/5

Technologies & Tools

AcuPartner Professional Electronic health record EHR software Microsoft Excel Microsoft Office software Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Windows Microsoft Word Miridia Technology AcuGraph Qchart Qpalm Acupuncture QPuncture II Trigram Software AcuBase Pro Word processing software

Work Environment & Strengths

Common Strengths for This Career

  • Attention to Detail (High importance: 4.71/5)
  • Dependability (High importance: 4.57/5)
  • Empathy (High importance: 4.53/5)
  • Cautiousness (High importance: 4.52/5)
  • Integrity (High importance: 4.4/5)

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How to Become One

This career requires extensive preparation, typically including a graduate degree (Master's or Doctoral) and several years of experience. Most professionals in this field have invested significant time in education and training.

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Also Known As

This career is known by many different job titles across industries. Here are all the variations:

Acupressure Therapist Acupressurist Acupuncture Doctor Acupuncture Physician Acupuncture Provider Acupuncturist Auricular Acupuncturist Auricular Detoxification Specialist Auricular Therapist Chinese Medical Doctor (Chinese MD) Chinese Medicine Doctor Herbalist Licensed Acupuncturist (LAC) Oriental Medicine Provider Traditional Chinese Medicine Doctor

Career Fit FAQs

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Can this help if I want to stay in my field

Yes. Many people use career pages like this to compare nearby roles in the same field and see whether they need a full switch or a better-fit version of the work they already know.

What should I compare first

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