Corn Meal can be used as a dust to control cut worms. They eat the corn meal but cannot metabolize it and it eventually kills them. Dust one part salt to two parts flour and it is fatal for cabbage worms as well.

To help ease a toothache, take some bark from the south side of a red oak tree. Boil this and add a pinch of salt. Hold it on the tooth that is aching and it will ease the pain.