T. Ye and colleagues from Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University in Nanchang , P. R. China reported a review in the journal Renal Failure suggesting that Chinese medicine mediated hot bath can help chronic renal failure.Chronic renal failure patients have few treatment options.  The Chinese doctors  revewed medical literature and found the thermal sweating therapy with Chinese herbal medicine and hot bath helped reduce interdialytic weight gain and improve blood pressure in patients with chronic renal failure.Additionally, with this therapy, the Chinese herbal medicine can promote the excretion of uremic toxins and relieve skin disorders in the chronic renal failure patients.The study concluded "Traditional Chinese medicine-mediated hot bath could be one of the adjuvant renal replacement methods." (DL)