Overview

• Main Menu
  
  
• Reference Library
  
  ->Acupoints
  
  ->Herbs
  
  ->Formulas
  
  ->Patents & Vendors
  
  ->Review Questions
  
  
• Patient Information & Billing

Like the Standard Formulas database, the Herbs & Rationale tab will show you all of the herbs in each formula. To add or change an herb, simply click on the Herb Name field to see an alphabetical pop-up list of available herbs. When you click on an herb, its Latin name and Chinese characters appear automatically. And, by clicking on the box next to any given herb, you will be taken directly to that herb in the Herbs database. Dosage is given if it was supplied to us from the patent formula's vendor.

The third tab, "Cautions, Dosage, Notes," shows fields full of just that: Cautions, Dosage, and other Notes related to each patent formula. Again, this information will be limited to what was supplied to us by the patent formula's vendor.

The Vendor Literature tab is where you would find much more detailed information about that vendor, provided to us by the vendors themselves. In the case of Lotus, they sent us their "Clinical Manual of Oriental Medicine," with hundreds of pages of information. We organized that information into a Table of Contents. Each item under "Contents" may be clicked upon to reveal its associated text. In the example below, the user clicked on "Herbal Extract Vs.Bulk Herb." You may scroll down under Contents to see further information, as well.

The Vendor Products & Inventory section of the Vendor Information database shows all patent formulas, standard formulas, and herbs in AcuBase which are supplied by this vendor. Next to each item is a button which may be clicked up to go directly to that item. If you were to click on the "Inventory" tab for Lotus Herbs below, you would see a list of all products that you have in inventory from that vendor. Again, you have buttons next to each item which, when clicked, will take you directly to that item in the Inventory database.

In addition to the top vendors which come with AcuBase Standard 2.003, you may edit the vendor information, delete it, or even add as many of your own vendors as you like.

For the purposes of this demo, we entered the Vendors database by clicking on the vendor logo in the Patent Formulas database, but you could also go directly to the Vendor Information database from the AcuBase Standard Main Menu. In that case, just like any other database in AcuBase, you will be presented with a list of all of the vendors in the database.

Simply click on the vendor you are interested in to get more information on that vendor (you'll be taken to the Contact Info tab, which is four pictures above this paragraph.)