They're really beautiful, but as we move into an intense allergy season, flowers are often the last thing on a lot of people's minds when it comes to improving health.

But now some claim that you could be missing out on the health benefits of flowers. NY1 Health reporter Kafi Drexel explains in the following report.

There's no doubt flowers smell good, look good, and can make us feel good. But do they have healing powers? Holistic nutritional counselor, Linda Cohen says they do.

“Each flower possesses a virtue or a healing code that s in the blossom, which helps to heal negative emotions or promote further positive emotions. So each blossom specifically carries a code for healing,” says Cohen.

What she's talking about doesn't require you to stick your head into a bouquet of flowers, but flower essence therapy, is a practice that's been around for decades. Used in drops or spray form, the essences are the sun imprints of plants infused in water, diluted and preserved with brandy.

Cohen says the essences help to improve your emotional wellbeing, can help combat stress and depression and ultimately lead to better overall health.

“We're finally realizing today that negative emotions cause disease,” says Cohen.

Sounds like a pretty lofty statement but vitamin and homeopathic remedy shops like Integral Yoga are carrying them by the case-load, and clients swear by them.

“When I take the essences on a regular basis, I can notice a huge difference in my ability to be more calm and not at the effect of things as much as when I'm not taking them,” says client Ellen Erlanger.

“They're going to help you. Absolutely, absolutely. They are going to heal you by getting you to the next level to help heal yourself,” says Integral Yoga Apothecary manager Lisa Georgetti.

While they don't say it's a cure, flower essence therapists like Cohen say it can help you combat allergies, and even ward off diseases as serious as cancer, all by helping bring on positive energy and emotions.

But some doctors issue serious words of caution there's no clinical evidence suggesting it works and that it certainly won't lead to cures of any illnesses.

“I think if people are misled into thinking this is going to change the status of their body, their physiologic processes, their genetic mutations, which lead to cancer and other physiologic events that can lead to serious diseases that's more than a stretch, it's just an absurdity,” says Dr. Barrie Cassileth Integrative Medicine Service Chief.

Dr. Cassileth does say these therapies won't harm you.

But she and other doctors suggest when it comes to improving your mood, you may just as well stop to smell the real roses.

— Kafi Drexel