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.
Both heart attack and heart failure are serious medical conditions that can cause death. Heart attack is caused by sudden total clogging of an artery that gives blood to the heart muscle. This kills part of the muscle of the heart, which weakens the heart. Heart failure occurs when the heart cannot circulate blood through the body.