The Healing Metal · 78% Copper, 22% Tin

Wellness of Kansa

Handcrafted pieces in an ancient bronze.

Kansa is a precise alloy of copper and tin. Most of the world has met it through one tool, the Kansa wand. It is older, wider, and more useful than just that. For the face. For the table. For the smallest hands at it.

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The Collection

The Pieces

Each handcrafted by artisans in India.

Kansa Gua Sha

Kansa Gua Sha

The Sculptor

A heart shaped piece of Kansa for the jaw, the brow, the collarbones. An East Asian technique in India's healing metal.

£25.00

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Kansa Ghee Pot First 10 with Ajji's Ghee

Kansa Ghee Pot

The Keeper

Entirely Kansa, inside and out. The vessel to store ghee as it was always meant to be. Non reactive, sacred, golden.

£85.00

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Kansa Tumbler

Kansa Tumbler

The Vessel

A beverage mug, a cup for cold desserts, a vessel for warm abhyanga oil or overnight tamra jal ritual. One cup, many ways to keep it close.

From £31.00

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Kansa Wand

Kansa Wand

The Balancer

A wooden handle, a Kansa dome. Rest it on the marma points the body holds tension in. Five minutes, almost embarrassingly simple.

£37.00

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Kansa First Plate Pre Order

Kansa Dinner Set

The First Plate

A thali, two katoris, a spoon, a glass. The set every child should be given, the way a gold chain is given.

£85.00

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The Origin

The Metal

Before the periodic table, there was Vedic alchemy.

Somewhere between three and five thousand years ago, metallurgists working within the Ayurvedic tradition fixed on a precise ratio of copper to tin. 78:22. They called it Kansa. The texts describe it as the healing metal, used for the vessels that held food, the tools that touched skin, and the plate humans ate from. It was the everyday alloy, before steel arrived and quietly replaced it.

Kansa cannot be machine made. The alloy is too unforgiving. Heated wrong, it cracks. Cooled wrong, it loses its bell like resonance. Every piece in this collection is sand cast, hammered, lathed, and polished by hand, by artisans whose families have worked this metal for generations.

Tap a real Kansa piece and it sings. That sound is how you know.

Care

Looking after Kansa.

Wash by hand, warm water, mild soap. Dry immediately. Kansa darkens with use. That is oxidation, and it is unavoidable. To restore the shine, a paste of lemon and salt works as well as a metal cleaning powder like Pitambri.

Build your Kansa shelf.

One piece at a time, until the home looks the way it was always meant to.

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