Did you know that in the swamps and shallow water bodies of our country there are many plants that cannot be found in forests, mountains, or meadows? And how many of them are medicinal, vitamin, food, decorative! Did you know that swamps are completely unique ecosystems capable of conserving solar energy, and that ill-conceived mass reclamation led to the destruction of swamps in certain regions? You will find answers to all these and many other questions in the book “Pharmacy in the Swamp.” Swamps and coastal reservoirs are inhabited by specific plants, many of which have a lot of useful properties. The book for the first time summarizes information on more than 100 medicinal, food, vitamin and ornamental plants that have adapted to life in waist-deep water. Among the “living pharmacy” there are plants that are popular and widely used in medicine, and there are also completely forgotten, but no less healing. In wet places you can find unique food plants that rival legumes in protein content and potatoes in starch content, not to mention the well-known cranberries and cloudberries, crowberries, blueberries, and hazelberries. All of them are not only tasty, but also healing. Northern orchids, irises and saxifrage, water lilies and water buttercups are amazingly beautiful, and they also have medicinal properties. The inhabitants of the swamp element are inextricably linked with their substrate - peat, so the story about the country's swamps fits organically into the narrative. Intensive reclamation threatens the extinction of many representatives of flora and fauna, typical and rare swamp ecosystems. Already now, many plants of swamps and coastal zones of reservoirs have become so rare that they are listed in the “red books” of various levels. Descriptions of plants and swamps are accompanied by illustrations, poems, statements by writers and publicists on problematic issues, which makes the text more lively and popular.