Britishers once brewed a good wine from carrot. Essential oil is used to flavor liqueurs and perfumes. Carrotseed oil, blended with cedarwood oil, is a good imitation of orris. Folk Medicine Seeds are aromatic, carminative, diuretic, emmenagogue, and stimulant, and are used for dropsy, chronic dysentery, kidney ailments, and worms. Also as an aphrodisiac, a nervine tonic, and for uterine pain.
Roots are refrigerant and are used in infusion for threadworm.
Diuretic, and eliminating uric acid, carrots belong in the diet of gout-prone people. Elsewhere the root, prepared in various manners, is used for tumors, cancerous ulcers, cancerous wounds, tumors of the testicles, mammary carcinoma, and skin cancer. The juice of the root is applied to carcinomatous ulcers of the neck and uterus, cancer of the bowels and stomach cancer. Scraped roots are used to stimulate indolent ulcers. Experimentally hypoglycemic, a tea made from Queen Anne's Lace was believed to help maintain low blood sugar levels in humans, but it had no effect on diabetes artifically induced in animals.