Rose hip

Research corpus coverage

Chemistry notes

• CHEMISTRY: Relevant reported constituents include vitamin C; galactolipids; carotenoids; constituent presence alone does not establish clinical efficacy.

Traditional / historical use

Documented traditional use — not a claim of established efficacy.

• TRADITIONAL: Rose hip has been used for vitamin support; joint pain; colds; this records historical/traditional use and does not establish efficacy.

  MODERATE · regulatory monograph · WHO Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants

Modern evidence

• EVIDENCE: For the major use set (vitamin support; joint pain; colds), the evidence assessment is limited/mixed: Limited/moderate meta-analytic evidence for osteoarthritis symptom reduction; product-specific.

  MODERATE · systematic review/meta-analysis · WHO Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants

  Mixed findings, product heterogeneity, or indirect evidence are preserved in the detailed profile.

Forms used traditionally

A listed form does not imply it suits every plant part, or that one preparation is interchangeable with another — see the plant’s own notes below.

Cats & dogs

• Low concern

  ASPCA designates Rosa species as non-toxic to cats and dogs; this whole-plant listing does not establish safety of rose essential oil, concentrated extracts, pesticides, or thorn injury.

  Contamination · ENVIRONMENTAL · whole plant · HIGH · poison_control_database · Rose - Toxic and Non-toxic Plants - ASPCA

Additional safety notes (general, unstructured)

Free-text safety notes carried from their source — not broken out by species, route, or hazard type, and not equivalent to the structured records above. Each note names the kind of source it came from.

• SAFETY: Major issues include GI upset; kidney-stone concern with high vitamin C exposure. Contraindications/cautions include Oxalate-stone history caution.

  MODERATE · regulatory monograph · EMA European Union herbal monographs and list entries

• SAFETY: Clinically relevant interaction concerns include Potential interactions with warfarin and lithium are theoretical/limited.

  MODERATE · regulatory monograph · EMA European Union herbal monographs and list entries

  Some interactions are theoretical or based on case reports/pharmacokinetics rather than outcome trials.

• SAFETY: Pregnancy/lactation reference: Food use common; medicinal extracts lack pregnancy/lactation data.

  MODERATE · regulatory monograph or evidence synthesis · WHO Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants

  Absence of evidence is not evidence of safety.

• ASPCA designates Rosa species as non-toxic to cats and dogs; this whole-plant listing does not establish safety of rose essential oil, concentrated extracts, pesticides, or thorn injury.

  HIGH · poison_control_database · Rose - Toxic and Non-toxic Plants - ASPCA

  Genus-level Rosa species listing; canonical record is Rosa canina (rose hip), while the priority request also names Rosa centifolia.

Taxonomic identity note

• Rose hip is treated here as Rosa canina L. in the family Rosaceae; recorded older names include Rosa dumalis Bechst. may occur in products.