Sold by weight. Rosehip (Rosa canina), whole, Bulgaria . These are large, red berries, @_ size. The aromatic and nutritious rosehips are used to make teas, extracts, marmalades and potpourris, among other things. These tiny fleshy fruits emerge loaded with nutrition in the fall, after the flowers fade and petals have fallen off. Rosehips have traditionally been used internally for colds and flu, minor infections, scurvy, diarrhea and gastritis. Rosehips contain a large amount of bioflavonoids and vitamins, especially Vitamin C. From Grieve's classic “A Modern Herbal”: Rosehips were long official in the British Pharmacopoeia for refrigerant and astringent properties, but are now discarded and only used in medicine to prepare the confection of hips used in conjunction with other drugs, the pulp being separated from the skin and hairy seeds and beaten up with sugar. It is astringent and considered strengthening to the stomach and useful in diarrhea and dysentery, allaying thirst, and for its pectoral qualities good for coughs and spitting of blood. Culpepper states that the hips are “grateful to the taste and a considerable restorative, fitly given to consumptive persons, the conserve being proper in all distempers of the breast and in coughs and tickling rheums' and that it has 'a binding effect and helps digestion.” He also states that “the pulp of the hips dried and powdered is used in drink to break the stone and to ease and help the colic.” Rosehips are used in toiletries, potpourri, holiday crafts, spice ropes, teas and jam.