[blackdog]

Rose bush hips contain enough vitamin C to ward off scurvy. Rose hips are the round knob left after the rose has bloomed and the petals have died back. The rose hips can be dried and stored in a mason jar or in plastic bags. They can be eaten as is, or as I prefer.......make a tea from them. They can also be boiled, mushed up, mixed with sugar and pectin to make a really nice tart jam or jelly.

An outstanding tea when you have the cold or flu is to mix rose hips, chamomile, and honey. The tea beats back a cold in just about two days.

[Girlene]

Thanks for that explanation...I never knew what a rose hip was.

[thecodont]

Aren’t pine needles supposed to have antiscorbutic properties also?

[Jack Hydrazine]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_hip

[Jane Long]

Good to know (about Rose Hips tea, etc.). Thanks ;)

[Jack Hydrazine]

But if you have a SHTF scenario happen in the fall to winter you’ve got to have some bottled vitamin C to get you by until the first crop of rose hips is ripe enough to harvest.

[grame]

Thank you for this tidbit of info!

[meatloaf]

Zinc gluconate from one vendor will stop the cold from taking hold IF your cold is always preceded by a sore throat and the lozenge is taken at the first sign of a scratchy throat.

[riverrunner]

Very true being left to one owns means in the artic is whole lot different then living where there are other foods available. One didn't or hear about scurvy except in the artic and on ships. If you live any where one could get a normal diet it isn't much of a worry.

Just having the knowledge of what could happen goes a long ways in preventing it.

[EdReform]

Bookmarking for future reference. Thanks for posting!

[Titan Magroyne]

Also yummy fresh on a dark lettuce leaf salad, accompanied by balsamic vinegrette (or however you spell it).

Altho to me, salad is just a delivery agent for the dressing, LOL.

The wild rose hips in my area are prime about 2 weeks before Christmas. But I only get to claim what the deer can’t reach, hanging over a deep bank cut of a creek. Darn wildlife loves ‘em too!