In this GIF Christian (guy up top) is simply trying to apply a holistic technique for clearing Darby (guy on the stretcher) of bad energy. It's a technique that has been applied successfully for thousands of years.
Man, this is a fresh meme. The events in the video only took place this past Sunday night.
"Holistic" is like the one word associated with "alternative medicine" that doesn't really deserve a bad rap. Just means "addresses the whole" - like, physical therapy is holistic, focusing for instance on how treating an injury affects a dynamic process like walking, versus just focusing on healing the tissue or bone at the site of the injury.
Well, this is a tangent. My comment wasn't even defending "alternative" medicine. But, the assumption there would basically be that every actually effective treatment that previous cultures/methodologies had identified has also been identified by modern "Western" medicine. It may be a good rule of thumb but it's not universally the case.
😂 Absolutely fair. I made that comment like 10 minutes after waking up and I knew I should've used a different word but couldn't think of something more appropriate at the time. But to keep your context preserved I'm not going to edit it.