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.
The most common causes of chronic liver failure (where the liver fails over months to years) include: 1  Hepatitis B. 2  Hepatitis C. 3  Long-term alcohol consumption. 4  Cirrhosis. Hemochromatosis (an inherited disorder that causes the body to absorb and store too much iron)  Malnutrition.