Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve: Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Autism

by Stanley D. Rosenberg

In addition to reaching the heart and lungs, the dorsal vagus nerve branch goes to the subdiaphragmatic organs of digestion (except for the descending colon). It goes to the stomach, liver, pancreas, spleen, ascending colon, and transverse colon.