Hip bush is a wild plant of rose family, usually up to one meter tall. The Latin name is Rosa L. The flowers are single or collectively gathered in an umbellate inflorescence. The flowers are bisexual, white, pink, red, and yellow. The berry is nut-like allseed; the pulp is fleshy, not juicy.

Rose hip berries contain 2-18% of vitamin C, vitamins P, B1, B2, K, E, pro-vitamin A, up to 24% sugar, citric acid, malic acid, anthocyanidin, pectin and tanning agent. It also contains the following chemical elements –sodium, potassium, magnesium, manganin, phosphorus, and iron. 

For medicinal purposes people most commonly use the berries, but the flowers, leaves, the bark and the roots are used as well. Even Hippocrates pointed out that rose hip berries have wonderful anti-inflammation effect. Avicenna used rose hip leaves for healing nose bleeding, and he used the flower juice to treat colds. Amirdolvlat mentions that the berries boiled with wine and used internally cause constipation and urine retention, taking a bath with the decoction helps diseases of the skin. 

Rose hip berries are used to make jams, juices, and vitamin syrups. Special oil, which is widely used in medicine, is obtained from flowers by means of water steam distillation.