Rose Hips: Herb of month
If you leave the flower on your rosebush, the petals will fall off after it finishes blooming, and a small red fruit will form – that is the rose hip.
Rose hips form on any sort of rose shrub, even a hybrid tea or floribunda, but the hips most commonly used in foods and beverages are harvested from wild roses.
Rose hips have been an important food for all Native tribes where any kind of roses can be found.
Rose hips are strung and worn as love-attracting beads.
A tea drunk before sleep induces prophetic dreams.
Rose petals and hips are also used in healing spells and mixtures, and a rose-water saturated cloth laid to the temples will relieve headache pain.