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.
1 Hepatitis C is the most common cause of liver failure leading to liver transplantation. 2  A liver donated by an adult can often be split and transplanted into two people. 3  There are more than 16,000 patients currently awaiting liver transplants.