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.
Just an addition !!! liver also produces erythropoietin, in adults although it's only 10% as compared to 90% produced by the kidney. So, relative deficiency of erythropoietin can also contribute to anemia in liver failure. Source; google.