• Kansa bronze tumbler, Ayurvedic drinking cup by Vaarsa London
  • Handcrafted kansa bronze water tumbler, Vaarsa London
  • Traditional kansa metal tumbler, made in India
  • Close-up of handcrafted kansa bronze tumbler
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Kansa Tumbler

Kansa Tumbler

£31.00 GBP
£31.00 GBP
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Fill it at night. Drink it at dawn. Water kept in Kansa overnight, Tamra Jal, is one of the oldest morning rituals in India, and this tumbler is made for it. Weighted in the hand, warm in colour, the kind of cup you reach for without thinking.

Kansa is a copper and tin alloy, worked by hand for generations. Choose a single tumbler, or a pair for the two of you.

It has other lives too. Warmed with oil, it serves for Abhyanga, the Ayurvedic self-massage, holding the oil at temperature on its own or alongside the Kansa Wand. It works just as well as a dessert bowl or a beverage mug.

Product Story

The Metal

Before the periodic table, there was Vedic alchemy.
Somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 years ago, metallurgists working within the Ayurvedic tradition made a discovery: copper and tin, combined at a precise 78:22 ratio, didn't just form an alloy. They formed something new. A third substance with its own molecular vibration, its own temperature, its own relationship with the human body. They called it Kansa, the healing metal.

The ratio matters. Deviate from it and you have ordinary bronze. Hold it, and Kansa becomes bioconductive: capable of drawing Pitta (excess heat and acidity) out of the skin and body on contact. This is why the grey appears on your skin during a Kansa massage. Not tarnish. Not damage. Acid, leaving.

True Kansa cannot be manufactured. It must be tempered — heated to a red glow, hammered, quenched, heated again — in a cycle that can only be done by hand. This process lives within a small number of hereditary smith clans in India, passed down through generations who never wrote the knowledge down because they never needed to. Their hands carry it.

The result is a metal that has outlasted every trend in wellness because it was never a trend. While the world moved to stainless steel and plastic, Kansa stayed, patient and hand-hammered, waiting to re-enter the rituals it was made for.

Our tools are bringing it back.

Size & Material

Approx. 6cm x 7.5cm diameter
Weight: 330 gms
Capacity: 130 ml each
Includes a set of 2 tumblers
Handcrafted - slight variation in finish is natural.

Care Instructions

Kansa has been used for centuries as tableware and is known for its health benefits. Your Kansa tableware is 100% food-safe. To maintain your Kansa, hand wash only using mild soap and soft sponge and Pitambari powder (metal polish) diluted with water for deep clean. Wipe dry immediately or else water residues will leave stains. Do not use abrasive cleaning pads or steel scrubbers on your Kansa tableware.

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