Nothing to do with politics of course.
The idea is to get more experience with certain cancer fighting acupuncture schemes plus exercise to do this distantly, i.e. having needles on your hand and imagining this is hand of a patient.
Nothing special in this type of healing for Yoga or Chi-Gong practitioners.
This has started around 10 days ago, today the news are,
his health is improving.
There are reasons to suggest he has metastatic process into lungs in reality. So the situation seems to be far from easy to solve.