Technic and Practice of Chiropractic

by Joy Maxwell Loban

The most important spinal connection with the abdominal blood-vessels is that of the fifth dorsal vertebra, for the fifth dorsal nerve, by its rami, seems greatly to influence the caliber of the aorta and coeliac axis.

A. Cortico Spinal nerve. B. Spino Ganglionic nerve.
C. Ganglio Ganglionic nerve. D. Ganglio Peripheric nerve.
E. Blood Vessel Wall.

Parker

Fig. 32. Schematic representation of nerve pathway from brain to periphery by way of sympathetic.

Liver: Fourth thoracic nerves (especially the right) to gangliated cord, via great splanchnic nerve to coeliac plexus, by hepatic plexus to interior of liver. The hepatic plexus gives off the cystic plexus which controls the gall-bladder.

Stomach: Sixth and seventh dorsal nerves by white rami to and through the ganglia of the gangliated cord to coeliac plexus. The gastric plexus is an offshoot of the coeliac and gives off Auerbach’s plexus to the muscular coat, and Meissner’s plexus to the submucous and mucous coats of the stomach. The nutrition of the stomach walls, their peristaltic action, and the secretory action of the stomach glands are thus brought under the direct influence of the sixth or the seventh dorsal subluxation.

Pancreas: Eighth dorsal nerve by great splanchnic to coeliac plexus, to hepatic and superior mesenteric plexuses, and by the pancreatico-duodenal branches of the former and pancreatic branches of the latter to the pancreas.

Spleen: The coeliac plexus, the left semilunar ganglion, and the left vagus and right phrenic nerves give off branches which form the splenic plexus. Spinal connection by way of ninth dorsal nerve, by rami communicantes to gangliated cord to great splanchnic nerve to coeliac plexus to splenic plexus. Many nerve pathways like this one are less indirect than they sound; various names have been given to different parts of the same pathway through which, often, the axons pass without interruption. On the way from the cerebral cortex to one of the abdominal viscera there may be only three, sometimes four or five, neurons connected end to end.