Specifications

 Rosehips 

The rose has always been valued for its beauty and fragrance. Cultivated for thousands of years, roses are an ancient symbol of love and beauty. The ancient Greeks and Romans identified the rose with their goddesses of love, Aphrodite and Venus
Rose hips are the berry-like fruits of the rose bush left behind after the bloom has died.
Rose hips are a perennial plant with thorny branches that give way to pink and white flowers and scarlet fruits, called “hips.” These rose hips are the ripe ovaries or seeded fruit of roses forming on branches after the flower. They are oval in shape and appear fleshy, shrunken, and wrinkled. Inside the hips are 3 or more small yellow-brown seeds. R. canina is native to Europe, North Africa, and temperate areas of Asia. The fruits (hips) are picked in autumn and used medicinally.

Benefits of rosehips:

• Rose hips are taken by many today as a natural way to get vitamin C, vitamin E and vitamin K, and help to prevent and treat various infections, especially colds and flu.
• Quickens the healing process for bruises and skin irritations.
• Inflammation and sore throat can find relief with rose hips.
• Rose contain calcium, citric acid, iron, niacin, phosphorus, tannin, vitamin A, B1, B2, and P. As a natural stimulant it gently allows movement of the bowels, as diuretic rose hips cleanse the urinary system, as a pectoral hips are a remedy for pulmonary and other lung diseases, and as a tonic the rose hips strengthen organs.
• The consumption of rosehips can combat nervousness, stress and anxiety.
• rose hips can help prevent the development of kidney stones and prevent diarrhoea.
• Rosehips are helpful to the circulatory system, respiratory system, the thymus gland and as a blood cleanser.