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Diagnose, treat, and prevent disorders by stimulating specific acupuncture points within the body using acupuncture needles. May also use cups, nutritional supplements, therapeutic massage, acupressure, and other alternative health therapies.
- • 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.
- • Collect medical histories and general health and lifestyle information from patients.
- • Apply moxibustion directly or indirectly to patients using Chinese, non-scarring, stick, or pole moxa.
- • Apply heat or cold therapy to patients using materials, such as heat pads, hydrocollator packs, warm compresses, cold compresses, heat lamps, or vapor coolants.
- • Analyze physical findings and medical histories to make diagnoses according to Oriental medicine traditions.
- • Develop individual treatment plans and strategies.
- • Treat medical conditions, using techniques such as acupressure, shiatsu, or tuina.
- • Insert needles to provide acupuncture treatment.
- • Identify correct anatomical and proportional point locations based on patients' anatomy and positions, contraindications, and precautions related to treatments, such as intradermal needles, moxibustion, electricity, guasha, or bleeding.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
