Honey has proved its medicinal and health effects as a natural food supplement. It is a potential therapeutic due to its antioxidant, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antifungal, antiviral, and antidiabetic activities. it also exhibits strong wound healing capacity. It is also immunomodulatory, estrogenic regulatory, antimutagenic, anticancer, and numerous other vigor effects. There are a lot of studies done on the medical uses of honey, its composition, the antibacterial properties etc. the purpose of the study is to bring all the information together and try to relate the composition and the properties of honey . as well as to look at the recent developments in using honey as a therapeutic agent.