The vegetative state, also called persistent vegetative state, is mainly damaged by the cerebral cortex, which is the highest level center for regulating somatic movement, integrating various senses (pain, touch, hearing, vision, taste, smell, etc.), controlling language, and has the function of inhibiting and integrating emotions. Therefore, a vegetative person has no emotion, cannot communicate with people and is in a comatose state, but some patients can show involuntary activities such as chewing, yawning, unconscious opening of eyes, etc., limited to this. A vegetative person is a patient with extensive cortical necrosis confirmed by CT or MRI and EEG, resulting in a persistent vegetative state. Some patients who are comatose and on the verge of death can survive for a long time after active resuscitation, but due to severe and extensive cortical damage, they fall into a state of being unconscious of themselves and their surroundings, unable to move and completely incontinent. Treatment for vegetative patients can be physical therapy, such as passive joint movement training, hyperbaric chamber therapy, affectionate therapy, Chinese medicine, and stimulation. Families of vegetative patients can chat and tell stories with patients as they do with normal people, which is beneficial to their recovery. In addition, music, touch, smell and taste stimulation are also beneficial to the patient’s recovery.