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.
Common causes of heart failure include the following: 1  Damage from a prior heart attack â Also called a myocardial infarction, a heart attack occurs when an artery that supplies blood to the heart is blocked so that no oxygen reaches the heart muscle. When this happens, part of the heart dies.. The medical term for the area of dead muscle is called the infarct.. The remaining, healthy tissue must take over the job of pumping blood, an extra burden that may weaken the heart's pumping ability.