Formulate herbal preparations to treat conditions considering herbal properties, such as taste, toxicity, effects of preparation, contraindications, and incompatibilities.

“Formulate herbal preparations to treat conditions considering herbal properties, such as taste, toxicity, effects of preparation, contraindications, and incompatibilities.” is a core task performed by Acupuncturists. Among the occupation's 18 rated tasks, workers place it 3rd by importance (#16 most important). About 86% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Prepare mixtures or solutions. in Performing General Physical Activities

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T1.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.005% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• Most common interaction: learning
• Average autonomy of the AI: 3.4 (1–5; higher = more autonomous)
• 88% of interactions still needed a human in the loop

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Working with AI vs. handing it off

Of the AI conversations mapped to this task, the split between people working alongside AI and people delegating the task to it.

How people interact with AI on this task

Other tasks in this occupation

• Maintain and follow standard quality, safety, environmental, and infection control policies and procedures. · importance 5.0
• Adhere to local, state, and federal laws, regulations, and statutes. · importance 4.9
• Treat patients using tools, such as needles, cups, ear balls, seeds, pellets, or nutritional supplements. · importance 4.9
• 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. · importance 4.9
• Develop individual treatment plans and strategies. · importance 4.9
• Insert needles to provide acupuncture treatment. · importance 4.9
• Evaluate treatment outcomes and recommend new or altered treatments as necessary to further promote, restore, or maintain health. · importance 4.7
• Collect medical histories and general health and lifestyle information from patients. · importance 4.7
• Maintain detailed and complete records of health care plans and prognoses. · importance 4.6
• Educate patients on topics, such as meditation, ergonomics, stretching, exercise, nutrition, the healing process, breathing, or relaxation techniques. · importance 4.5
• Assess patients' general physical appearance to make diagnoses. · importance 4.4
• Analyze physical findings and medical histories to make diagnoses according to Oriental medicine traditions. · importance 4.4
• Consider Western medical procedures in health assessment, health care team communication, and care referrals. · importance 4.3
• Dispense herbal formulas and inform patients of dosages and frequencies, treatment duration, possible side effects, and drug interactions. · importance 4.0

See all tasks on the Acupuncturists page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Formulate herbal preparations to treat conditions considering herbal properties, such as taste, toxicity, effects of preparation, contraindications, and incompatibilities.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-17356}
}