For thousands of years it was used by the ancient Egyptians as part of religious ceremonies to reach higher levels of consciousness and connect to the Divine. They would steep the Blue Lotus flowers in wine for several weeks and use it as a sacred sacrament.
1 Metabolic disease. 2  Rare metabolic diseases, such as Wilson's disease and acute fatty liver of pregnancy, infrequently cause acute liver failure. 3  Cancer. 4  Cancer that either begins in or spreads to your liver can cause your liver to fail.
Recover Heart Attack with Repairing Cardiac Tissue by Heart Patch, Showing Hope. The most common causes of heart failure are hypertension (high blood pressure) and coronary artery disease. Uncontrolled high blood pressure, or hypertension, can cause a heart attack but it is also a major cause of heart failure even in the absence of an attack. In fact, about 75 percent of cases of heart failure start with hypertension. A heart attack is an injury to the heart muscle caused by a loss of blood supply. It usually occurs when a blood clot blocks the flow of blood through a coronary artery â a blood vessel that feeds blood to a part of the heart muscle.