But until recently, screening them to isolate their medicinal properties so that they can be produced in commercial form has been slow and difficult.
His commercial form is far from the sometimes-popular graphics explosion.
Well, it's never been clearer that the album, while being one of pop's commercial forms, is not necessarily its organic aesthetic form.
Aerobic exercise has long been a popular approach to achieving weight loss and physical fitness, often taking a commercial form.
"They don't look much like failed attempts at the usual commercial forms, Bey," he said.
The first point to recognize is that copyright is just a commercial form of privacy law.
Ambient compositions are often quite lengthy, much longer than more popular, commercial forms of music.
The latest commercial form to catch fire, the "mockumentary," may be on its way out, too, according to some creative directors.
It wasn't just the old cowboy-versus-Indian battle recurring in modern commercial form.
Early commercial forms were marketed as Irtran-2 but this designation is now obsolete.