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.
Causes of ascites due to liver problems include: 1  Cirrhosis describes a form of liver failure in which liver tissue that is damaged is replaced by scar tissue. 2  Acute liver failure can result in ascites.  Budd-Chiari syndrome is caused by the blockage of the hepatic veins (those that drain the liver).