The vagus nerve (Latin for “wandering nerve”) is not only responsible for supplying the head area as the other cranial nerves, but it supplies almost all organs of the body “parasympathetically”. It is the longest cranial nerve, the largest nerve of the parasympathetic nervous system and it influences relaxation, heart rate, breathing, digestion, building up energy reserves and regenerating the organism.
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