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 Diseases of the veins in the liver. 2  Vascular diseases, such as Budd-Chiari syndrome, can cause blockages in the veins of the liver, leading to acute liver failure. 3  Metabolic disease. 4  Rare metabolic diseases, such as Wilson's disease and acute fatty liver of pregnancy, infrequently cause acute liver failure.
The most common causes of heart failure are: 1  coronary artery disease and heart attack (which may be silent) 2  cardiomyopathy. 3  high blood pressure (hypertension)  heart valve 1  disease. congenital heart disease.  alcoholism and drug abuse.